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Shirodkar, Srikanth. Learning Microsoft Project 2019: streamline project, resource, and schedule management with Microsoft's project management software / Srikanth Shirodkar. — 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/2621659.pdf>.

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Тематика: Project management — Computer programs.; Project management — Computer programs.

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Оглавление

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright and Credits
  • Dedicated
  • About Packt
  • Contributors
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Section 1: The Iron Triangle – a Quick Primer for Project Management
  • Chapter 1: Project Management – the Essential Primer
    • Projects – what is special about them?
      • Project – the definition
      • Project management
      • The project manager
    • Project management knowledge
      • Choose your fount of knowledge
      • The project life cycle
      • Project management processes
    • The challenges and benefits of project management
      • The Iron Triangle (Triple Constraint of Project Management)
      • The elephant in the room (failure rates)
      • Winning – but at what cost (burnout rates)?
    • What is Microsoft Project really?
      • Gantt charts
      • When not to use MS Project
    • How this book is structured
      • Mapping to process groups and the project life cycle
      • Truly domain agnostic
      • How to read the book (end to end reading versus pinpoint references)
    • Summary
  • Section 2: Project Initiation with Microsoft Project
  • Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Microsoft Project
    • Technical requirements
    • Understanding the UI basics of MS Project
      • Backstage
    • Building your first simple project
    • Understanding Tasks
      • Task modes: Automatic or Manual
      • Backstage: contextual changes
      • Linking and dependencies between tasks
    • Scheduling a project
      • Resourcing your tasks
      • Allocating tasks to resources
    • Taking a closer look at views
      • Tables
      • Charts, diagrams, timelines, and graphs
      • Which view should we use?
      • Reports
    • Practice assignment
    • Summary
  • Chapter 3: Initiating projects with Microsoft Project
    • Initiating projects
      • What the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) says
      • Key outcomes of the initiating stage
      • Risk over the project life cycle
    • Project for this chapter – digital marketing campaign
    • Scheduling with MS Project – a deeper understanding
      • Project Information and Project Options
      • Tasks
      • Linking and dependency
      • Resources
    • Revisiting the UI
      • Timeline view
      • Gantt chart UI
      • Quick Access Toolbar
      • The Indicators column
      • Options and configurations
    • Assignment
      • Case study
    • Summary
  • Chapter 4: Underlying Concepts of Microsoft Project
    • Demystifying the Basic Work Formula
    • An example Project for this chapter – creating online departmental manuals
      • Case 1 – Change of duration
      • Case 2 – Adding additional resources
      • Case 3 – Increasing Units
      • Deeper scheduling
    • Exploring task types
      • Understanding the concept of Fixed Units
      • Fixed duration
      • Fixed work
      • Are your tasks effort-driven or not?
      • The impact of using task types
    • Underlying algorithms – How project scheduling works
    • Understanding Project Calendars
      • Setting the Project Start Date
      • Creating your new calendar
      • Customizing your new calendar
      • Setting the Project Calendar
      • How calendars really work in Project
    • Summary
    • Assignment
  • Chapter 5: Resource Management with Microsoft Project
    • Basic resource management techniques with Project
      • Creating resources
      • Allocating resources
      • Assigning resources
      • Updating resources
      • The Resource Pool feature
    • Enterprise-level resourcing concepts
    • Revisiting overallocations
    • Basic concepts of fine-tuning resource assignments
    • Best practices of resource management
    • Summary
  • Section 3: Project Planning Like a Pro!
  • Chapter 6: Work Breakdown Structure – the Single Critical Factor
    • The planning phase in project management
    • Delving into WBS
      • The importance of the WBS
      • What is not included in the WBS
      • What does a WBS look like?
    • Standard techniques for creating a WBS
      • Some confusing aspects of WBS
      • The drawbacks of a WBS
    • Creating a robust WBS using 10 simple rules
    • Exploring the WBS feature in Microsoft Project
    • Going from a WBS to tasks
    • Summary
  • Chapter 7: Tasks – under the Microscope
    • The project for this chapter
      • Importing tasks from Excel into Project
    • Organizing tasks to create a schedule
      • Technique 1 – Organizing a schedule using Summary Tasks
      • Technique 2 – Organizing a schedule by chronological sorting
      • Technique 3 – Organizing a schedule by grouping resources
      • Creating Summary Tasks from indentation
    • Special tasks and task features
      • Milestones
      • Inactivating tasks
      • Blank rows
      • Recurring tasks
      • A deeper understanding of Summary Tasks
    • Summary
  • Chapter 8: Mastering Link Dependency and Constraints
    • Scheduling – a quick refresher
    • Task dependencies and constraints
      • Task relationships
      • Four types of task dependencies
      • Understanding constraints
      • Selecting the correct task dependency
    • Releasing the latest application version
    • Working with task dependencies
      • Creating special dependencies
    • Working with date constraints
      • Types of date constraints
    • A few important best practices
    • Summary
  • Chapter 9: Extended Customization – Task and Gantt Formatting
    • Fundamentals of formatting a view
      • Formatting Text Styles
      • Gridlines
      • Layout
      • Adding a new customized column
      • Achieving an aesthetic design
    • Formatting bar styles
      • Formatting a single, specific taskbar (local-level formatting)
      • Formatting an entire category of taskbars
      • Formatting an entire Gantt chart
    • Diagnostic formatting
      • Task Path
      • Critical Tasks (critical path)
    • Summary
  • Section 4: Project Execution – the Real Deal
  • Chapter 10: Executing Agile Projects with MS Project
    • Technical requirements
    • A brief introduction to Agile methodologies
      • The Agile Manifesto
      • Deciding between Agile and Waterfall
      • Deciding whether Agile is suited to your project
      • When you should not use Agile
    • A project on a simple e-commerce website
      • Task list for the project
    • Agile frameworks
      • Kanban and MS Project
      • Scrum and MS Project
    • Summary
  • Chapter 11: Overallocation – the Bane of Project Managers
    • Introducing overallocation
      • Simulating an overallocation
      • Why does overallocation exist?
      • Avoiding overallocation with the Assign Resource feature
      • Diagnosing overallocation
      • Resolving overallocation
    • Summary
  • Chapter 12: Baselines – Techniques and Best Practices
    • A deeper understanding of baselines
      • The need for baselines
    • Project for this chapter
    • Understanding the Variance table
    • Creating a new baseline
      • A flowchart for controlling changes with baselines
      • Variance table revisited
      • Analyzing baselines
      • Comparing multiple baselines
      • Understanding interim plans
    • Best practices when using baselines
    • Maintaining baselines
      • Updating a baseline
      • Deleting (clearing) a baseline
    • Summary
  • Chapter 13: Project Tracking Techniques
    • A deeper understanding of project tracking
      • Considerations for project tracking
    • Project tracking flowchart
    • Project for this chapter
      • Relevance of the status date
    • Simple techniques for project tracking
      • Context menu update technique
      • Preset percentage complete technique
      • The Mark on Track technique
    • Update Project technique
    • Advanced techniques for project tracking
      • Advanced scheduling options
      • Variable percentage complete technique
      • Percentage complete and remaining duration technique
      • Actuals tracking technique
      • Using the Tracking Gantt Chart view
      • Assignment tracking
    • Best practices for project tracking
    • Summary
  • Section 5: Monitoring and Control with Microsoft Project
  • Chapter 14: Views, Tables, and Customization
    • Gaining an advanced understanding of views
      • Types of view
      • Display formats used in views
    • Understanding which view to use and when
      • Views to manage task data
      • Views to manage resource data
      • Views to manage assignment data
    • Advanced features of views
      • Understanding tables
      • Details view (also known as the split-window view)
      • Sorting of schedule data
      • Filtering and highlighting information
      • Grouping project information
    • Creating custom views
      • Creating a new view from a current view
      • Creating a new view from scratch
    • Summary
  • Chapter 15: Resource and Cost Management
    • A deeper understanding of resources and costs
      • The Work resource type
      • The Material resource type
      • The Cost resource type
    • Basics of costing in Project
      • Costing versus pricing
      • Costing is based on resourcing
      • Project for this chapter
      • Creating a Project budget
    • Costing of work resources
      • Standard rate of pay
      • Variable rate of pay
    • Costing of material resources
      • Variable costs
      • Fixed costs
    • Costing of cost resources
      • Fixed costs for resource usage
      • Fixed costs for task usage
    • Analyzing costing using different views
      • Project-level cost analysis views
      • Assignment-level cost analysis view
      • Task-level cost analysis view
      • Resource-level cost analysis view
      • Baseline cost comparison analysis
    • Summary
  • Chapter 16: Critical Path Monitoring and Advanced Techniques
    • A deeper understanding of the critical path
      • What is slack?
      • What is a critical task?
      • What is the critical path?
      • What is CPM?
    • Techniques to shorten the project
      • Shortening the critical path (crashing the project)
      • Increasing parallel paths (fast-tracking the project)
      • Resource reallocation
    • Applying lag and lead time
    • Advanced overallocation resolution techniques
      • The resource leveling technique
      • The work contour technique
    • Resolving scheduling problems
    • Summary
  • Chapter 17: Project Reports 101
    • Introduction to Project's reporting framework
      • Salient features of Project reports
    • Reporting architecture in Project
      • View-Table reports
      • Graphical prebuilt reports
      • Limitations of graphical reports
      • Visual (OLAP) reports
    • Best practices for status reporting
    • Summary
  • Section 6: Project Closure with Microsoft Project
  • Chapter 18: Reviewing Projects and Creating Templates for Success
    • Introduction to the project closing phase
    • Common error patterns in Project
      • Sequencing error patterns
      • Scheduling error patterns
    • Understanding the project closure review
      • Project comparison report tool
      • Baseline comparison tool
    • Templates for success
      • Templates in Project
      • Benefits of templates
    • Creating a new template for your organization
    • Summary
  • Chapter 19: Advanced Custom Reports and Templates
    • Introduction to customized reports
    • Understanding Project's reporting architecture
      • Understanding dynamic reports
    • Modifying an existing report
    • Creating your own custom report
      • A new report – resource cost balancing table report
      • A new report – resource work variance bar graph report (plus costs too!)
      • Earned Value Management (EVM) report
    • Understanding the global template
      • What is stored in the global template?
      • Copying into and from the global template
    • Summary
  • Chapter 20: Book Conclusion and Next Steps
    • The complete Project roadmap
      • Initiating with Project
      • Planning with Project
      • Executing with Project
      • Monitoring and controlling with Project
      • Closing with Project
    • Next steps
    • A final summary
  • Appendix A: Using This Book as a Textbook
  • Appendix B: Available Fields Reference
    • Task fields – a small curated subset
      • Resource fields – a small curated subset
      • Assignment fields – a small curated subset
  • Appendix C: Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Appendix D: Glossary
  • Other Books You May Enjoy
  • Index

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