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Dynamic Scheduling with Microsoft Office Project 2003: The Book by and for Professionals 1st Edition

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  • Paperback: 755 pages
  • Publisher: J. Ross Publishing; 1 edition (January 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1932159452
  • ISBN-13: 978-1932159455
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.6 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
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By Mark A. Lucas on July 17, 2006
Format: Paperback
This book will not teach you how to perform 'work planning' (or scheduling) and it will not teach you the basics of how to use MS Project. I have at least 5 thick books that do that, and I consider most of them useless. I have been managing IT projects since the 1980s, and have used MS Project (MSP) since the early 1990s. I have spent many late hours struggling with its confusing and misleading and Poorly documented) functions that do not always do what you expect (or the help/manual says)it will do. I particulary dislike it's seemingly random choice to recalc a critical path, and changes dates and durations based only on resources. In June, my team (an experienced set of IT project managers)took advanced MS Project training from the "International Institute for Learning". All 15 people who attended the training said it was the best MS project training they had ever had!

Part of the success of the course was that the instructor was an experienced software project manager who had extensive experience with MS Project and other scheduling tools. She knew MSP's eccentricities and annoyances and was very clear in guiding us what to do - or Not to do.

The class materials were also excellent and were clear on the various issues that MSP has, and the unplanned effects they can have on a project work plan. This included the "Dynamic Scheduling.." book.

This book includes warnings and workarounds for many of MSP's 'warts'. These are the quirks that project managers complain about at PMI meetings, but can never seem to find *any* documentation from Microsoft (who acts like the problems do not exist), or the 3rd party book vendors who usually regurgitate the misleading - and vague - online help text.
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Microsoft Project receives a lot of unfair criticism from dilletantes that expect it to be as easy to use as Microsoft Word. When they try to use the application without knowing the "whys and wherefores", they get frustrated, and act like the poor workman in blaming their tools rather than acknowledging their own lack of skill.

Help is at hand. This book is a top-notch effort that sets out best practices to make the most effective use of Microsoft Project. The author does not tediously enumerate every last feature. Instead, he lays out a sequence of best practices, chapter by chapter in chronological order, to use the tool. End of chapter summaries and exercises allow one to gain practical familiarity with using the tool. I would rate this publication better than Microsoft's own books on Microsoft Project.

What I like is that the entire book was written by _one_ author. Thus, there is a certain consistency of opinion from chapter to chapter. This becomes obvious compared to the other popular Microsoft Project tome, which, depending upon the edition, has close to a dozen co-authors.

The author's style of writing is a little more verbose than one would expect, but it lends a certain charm and continental color to otherwise dry proceedings. However the typesetting of the book and the choice of fonts could have been better -- it reads like a printed and bound training manual.

To summarize, overlook the typesetting and buy the book. It is a great book for Microsoft Project users of all skill levels (not just for the rank beginner, but the professional as well).
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Don't buy this book ..... unless you know exactly what you are looking for. This is a very expensive book for learning how to operate MS Project within the limitations I discovered only after buying the book.

If you manage projects in the real world you have probably struggled with balancing resources AMONG projects. Nothing could be more fundamental than this - or so I thought. But in 774 pages, this critical topic is not covered. Further, this limitation is not described in any of the reviews or in the Amazon Editorial Review.

When the book arrived, I found the following disclaimer to my dismay (and amazement) on page 10. I paraphrase:

"What You Won't find in this book..."

"....A discussion of how to manage multiple projects..."

"...Managing many small projects,..."

"...managing one large integrated program schedule..."

"...managing a porfolio of projects."

Well now having read the author's disclaimer up-front, if you still think the book is for you, then go ahead and read the other reviewers who have a lot more to say about the contents.
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I am just completing teaching an MS Project class at local community college that is part of a 92 hour, six class series of Project Management. I am using your Dynamic Scheduling With Microsoft Office Project 2003. I have taught with both your 2000 and 2002 texts, and I just have to tell you that the 2003 version is the very best text yet.

I have taught many MS Project classes with other texts, and when I discovered your 2000 version, recommended it for the classes we were developing for the new Project Management series. I have enjoyed both the 2000 and 2002 versions, but 2003 really "tells all." You have included all of the really elusive secrets of efficiently using MS Project. All of my students have raved about your texts - I will be contacting previous students to let them know they need to purchase this updated version.

Our Project Management series uses a very large relocation case study (just a coincidence that you too use a relocation case study in your text). I have poured over this new text and found the answers to questions that have plagued me over the past couple of years. I feel that this new text has provided me and the students with the most comprehensive "how to" information available. The students love it because they have immediate success with your "best practices" techniques. I point out to them parts of the text that I feel simplify MS Project the most, and how your articulate and spare instructions will produce the results they want.

I have one person in this particular class that has used MS Project for quite some time. He just cannot believe that he has finally found a definitive text that has answered so many questions that he has never been able to get the answers to.
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