The Complete Idiot's Guide to Project Management Using Microsoft Project 2000 provides an easy to use source of answers for all your questions regarding project management fundamentals and the industry's leading project management tool. It is for anyone who is just starting to use or is thinking of using Microsoft Project. Topics include integration between Project data and other applications, Project analysis, using Project in workgroups, tracking costs, and Web Integration.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Project Management Using Microsoft Project 2000 provides an easy to use source of answers for all your questions regarding project management fundamentals and the industry's leading project management tool. It is for anyone who is just starting to use or is thinking of using Microsoft Project. Topics include integration between Project data and other applications, Project analysis, using Project in workgroups, tracking costs, and Web Integration.
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Ron Black is an international speaker, author, and consultant with more than 25 years of hands-on project management experience in the construction, high-technology and business solutions environments. His sage advice and practical wisdom have helped thousands achieve both project and career success.
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"Outstanding",
By Theodore W. Garrison, III (Wayne, PA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Complete Idiot's Guide to Project Management with Microsoft Project 2000 (Complete Idiot's Guide) (Mass Market Paperback)
There are a lot of self-proclaimed project management "experts" out there but it is obvious that this guy manages projects for a living. There are a lot of books that tell you how to push the buttons, but this is the only one I've found that tells you why you need to do something. Better yet, he shows the easiest way (using the software or not) to do it. For example, I sometimes have to figure out how much more it will cost to speed a project up. This is the only book I've found that shows how you can calculate expedited projects in Microsoft Project. I've been at this business (doing it and teaching it) for 30 years and this book took my understanding of the basics to a whole new level. I'm impressed! If yo only own one book on project management this is it!"
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Taking the 'Fear' out of Project Mgt. & Creating Balance,
By Kati Jacobs (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Complete Idiot's Guide to Project Management with Microsoft Project 2000 (Complete Idiot's Guide) (Mass Market Paperback)
Ron Black has succeeded where many have failed. He has taken the complexities of using MS Project 2000 and turned them into an easy-to-understand format that blends the tool side of PM with the people side.As a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and PM trainer, I intend to recommend this book to both to beginners and 'experts' alike. With a fun-loving, obvious sense of humor, Ron Black explains the underlying principles upon which this type of software was developed. Additionally, he has NOT neglected the all important aspect of how to use the tool to motivate, inform, and build a cohesive project team. He does what folks need - shows them that they CAN do it, that project management and the PM software really isn't as terrifying as it may seem when you first get thrown into it. The book is informative, thorough, and motivating. Buy it. Read it. Use it. Open it often to remind yourself of the all important basics that we often lose sight of when we are caught in the middle of a busy project day.
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Outstanding Reference!,
By PMK (NM, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Complete Idiot's Guide to Project Management with Microsoft Project 2000 (Complete Idiot's Guide) (Mass Market Paperback)
I was just hoping to find a book on how to use MS Project 2000, but instead I found an excellent reference on project management that also teaches MS Project. That is the value of this book - it teaches good project management skills, and how MS Project can help you reach your goals. I especially recommend this to project management rookies.
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Project management has been described as the ability to create the impossible, with the unwilling, against insurmountable odds, under budget, on time, while singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic and drinking a glass of water. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
project initiation document, resource sheet view, driving constraint, workflow sequence, project originator, overallocation problems, workflow logic, triple constraints, expedite analysis, overall project duration, successful project managers, chart view, base calendar, accurate schedule, predecessor task, work bursts, project management process, master project, finish date, task durations, task dependencies, longest sequence, vertical divider, duration estimates, workgroup members Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Microsoft Project, Project Central, The Least You Need, Detail Gantt, Tracking Gantt, Adam Smith, Leveling Gantt, More Views, Task Sheet, Update Project, Erect Tower, Publishing Projects, Sequencing Tasks, The Resourceful Use of Resources, Thinking of Everything, Microsoft Office, Page Setup, Sharing Information, Telemetry System, Entry Sheet, Hide Column, Insert Column, Project Statistics, Shortening the Schedule, Finish No Later Than New!
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Project management has been described as the ability to create the impossible, with the unwilling, against insurmountable odds, under budget, on time, while singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic and drinking a glass of water. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
project initiation document, resource sheet view, driving constraint, workflow sequence, project originator, overallocation problems, workflow logic, triple constraints, expedite analysis, overall project duration, successful project managers, chart view, base calendar, accurate schedule, predecessor task, work bursts, project management process, master project, finish date, task durations, task dependencies, longest sequence, vertical divider, duration estimates, workgroup members Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Microsoft Project, Project Central, The Least You Need, Detail Gantt, Tracking Gantt, Adam Smith, Leveling Gantt, More Views, Task Sheet, Update Project, Erect Tower, Publishing Projects, Sequencing Tasks, The Resourceful Use of Resources, Thinking of Everything, Microsoft Office, Page Setup, Sharing Information, Telemetry System, Entry Sheet, Hide Column, Insert Column, Project Statistics, Shortening the Schedule, Finish No Later Than New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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