More than just a book! Get comfortable with simple techniques that you can use to bring order to project management chaos. Don’t just read about it: see it and hear it, with step-by-step video tutorials and valuable audio sidebars. Way more than just a book, this is all the help you’ll ever need… where you want, when you want! Learn Fast, Learn Easy! Using web, video, and audio Show Me video walks through tasks you’ve just got to see – including bonus advanced techniques Tell Me More audio delivers practical insights straight from the experts Let Me Try It tasks break down the complex into easy-to-follow, step-by-step sequences

Experience learning made easy-and quickly teach yourself how to manage your projects with Project 2010. With Step By Step, you set the pace-building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Topics include building a project plan and fine-tuning the details; scheduling tasks, assigning resources, and managing dependencies; monitoring progress and costs; keeping projects on track; communicating project data through Gantt charts and other views.

Microsoft Project is brimming with features to help you manage any project, large or small. But learning the software is only half the battle. What you really need is real-world guidance: how to prep your project before touching your PC, which Project tools work best, and which ones to use with care. This book explains it all, helping you go from project manager to project master. Get a project management primer. Discover what it takes to handle a project successfully Learn the program inside out. Get step-by-step instructions for Project Standard and Project Professional Build and refine your plan. Put together your team, schedule, and budget Achieve the results you want. Build realistic schedules, and learn how to keep costs under control Track your progress. Measure your performance, make course corrections, and manage changes Use Project's power tools. Customize Project's features and views, and transfer info directly between Project and other programs

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The book is designed for users of earlier versions to upgrade their skills and for new planners to learn the software.

Through the use of best practices, helpful screen shots, hands-on exercises, and review questions, this book instructs you on how to build dynamic schedules with Microsoft Project 2010 that will allow you to explore 'what if?' scenarios and decrease the time you spend making static schedule changes.

Market_Desc: Primary Reader--The book is targeted at project managers. This can also include resource managers, team leads, project schedulers, project administrators, project management students. The ideal Reader are new project managers, new Microsoft Project users, and experienced Microsoft Project users who are looking for the right way to use Microsoft Project.Secondary Reader--Candidates for Microsoft's new MCTS: Misrosoft Project 2010, Managing Projects (70-178) exam. Special Features: " By Project Managers, For Project Managers--Unlike other Microsoft Project 2010 books, this book focuses on essential skills Project Managers need to have when using Project to perform their jobs." Practical Look at a Complex Product--Microsoft Project is a difficult product to master. This book focuses on Project's features that users will need to use to effectively manage projects, bypassing features they will rarely if ever use." Systematic Approach-Author shows the reader how to use Microsoft Project in all phases of project management, from creating a work breakdown structure to closing a project." Enhanced CD--CD includes ove an hours worth of video walkthroughs from author Robert Happy, as well as project files used throughout the book." Maps to PMBOK Guide--The Guide to Project Management Body of Knowledge is the standard for all project managers. The book focuses on the process and procedures defined in PMBOK Guide 4th Ed, showing them how Microsoft Project can be used to perform these tasks." Ideal for Certification Candidates--Book covers the entire skill set for the MCTS: Micorosoft Project 2010, Managing Projects (70-178) certification offered my Microsoft Learning. About The Book: This book is a practical guide to using Microsoft Project 2010 from a real project management practitioner's perspective. It incorporates best practices and follows the natural process flow of project planning through tracking and closure. The goal of this book is not to overwhelm and impress the reader with how many features can be crammed between the covers, but instead, place value on getting project managers using Project properly and as quickly as possible.Readers can begin planning their projects immediately, using best practices and see quick results from applying the techniques they have learned. This is a how-to book on project planning, tracking and reporting using Microsoft Project and not a product reference guide which is what the market is currently flooded with.