You’re beyond the basics, so dive right in and really put your project management skills to work! This supremely organized reference is packed with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It’s all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts tackle Project 2007—and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery!
Monitor your project’s critical path and make adjustments to dependencies
Manage linked tasks across multiple projects
Create pivot views of project data with Visio® 2007 and Excel 2007
Enable Web-based collaboration with team members, sponsors, and other project stakeholders
Tailor the way Project 2007 works with personalized views, menus, and fields
Manage project activities in an enterprise project management environment
Configure Project Server 2007 and administer users and enterprise resource pools
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Resources for exploring the new Office Open XML format
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Project Fundamentals
Chapter 1 Introducing Microsoft Office Project 2007
Using This Book
Using Microsoft Project—An Overview
What’s New in Microsoft Office Project 2007
Learning As You Go
Chapter 2 Understanding Projects and Project Management
Understanding Project Management Basics
Understanding Project Management Processes
Facilitating Your Project with Microsoft Project
Working with the Project Stakeholders
Keys to Successful Project Management
Developing the Project Plan
Chapter 3 Starting a New Project
Focusing the Project Vision
Creating a New Project Plan
Entering Tasks
Sequencing and Organizing Tasks
Organizing Tasks into an Outline
Setting Up Your Work Breakdown Structure
Adding Supplementary Information to Tasks
Chapter 4 Viewing Project Information
Understanding Project Information Categories
Accessing Your Project Information
Rearranging Your Project Information
Arranging Your Microsoft Project Window
Navigating to a Specific Location in a View
Chapter 5 Scheduling Tasks
Setting Task Durations
Establishing Task Dependencies
Scheduling Tasks to Achieve Specific Dates
Setting Deadline Reminders
Creating Milestones in Your Schedule
Working with Task Calendars
Seeing Feedback on Scheduling Changes
Chapter 6 Setting Up Resources in the Project
Understanding the Impact of Resources in the Project Plan
Adding Resources to the Project
Removing a Resource from the Project
Identifying Tentative, Generic, or Budget Resources
Setting When Resources Are Available for Work
Adding Detailed Resource Information
Chapter 7 Assigning Resources to Tasks
Assigning Work Resources to Tasks
Assigning Material Resources to Tasks
Assigning Cost Resources to Tasks
Reviewing Assignment Information
Changing Resource Assignments
Contouring Resource Assignments
Chapter 8 Planning Resource and Task Costs
Working with Costs and Budgeting
Planning Resource Costs
Planning Fixed Task Costs
Reviewing Planned Costs
Setting Up and Reviewing a Project Budget
Setting a Different Currency
Chapter 9 Checking and Adjusting the Project Plan
Working with the Critical Path and Critical Tasks
Bringing in the Project Finish Date
Reducing Project Costs
Balancing Resource Workloads
Changing Project Scope
Reviewing the Impact of Changes
Obtaining Buyoff on the Project Plan
Tracking Progress
Chapter 10 Setting a Baseline and Updating Progress
Saving Original Plan Information Using a Baseline
Updating Task Progress
Updating Actual Costs
Chapter 11 Responding to Changes in Your Project
Monitoring and Adjusting the Schedule
Monitoring and Adjusting Costs
Monitoring and Adjusting Resource Workload
Reporting and Analyzing Project Information
Chapter 12 Reporting Project Information
Establishing Your Communications Plan
Using Views to Report Project Information
Generating Text and Visual Reports
Running Reports for Your Requirements
Revising a Built-In Report
Building a Custom Report
Saving Project Data Fields
Chapter 13 Analyzing Progress Using Earned Value
Generating Earned Value Data
Reviewing Earned Value Data
Managing Multiple Projects
Chapter 14 Managing Master Projects and Resource Pools
Structuring Master Projects with Subprojects
Consolidating Project Information
Sharing Resources by Using a Resource Pool
Chapter 15 Exchanging Information Between Project Plans
Linking Information Between Project Plans
Copying and Moving Information Between Projects
Copying Project Elements by Using the Organizer
Integrating Microsoft Project with Other Programs
Chapter 16 Exchanging Information with Other Applications
Copying Information
Embedding Information
Linking Information
Hyperlinking to Documents in Other Applications
Importing and Exporting Information
Chapter 17 Integrating Microsoft Project with Microsoft Excel
Copying Between Microsoft Project and Excel
Embedding Between Microsoft Project and Excel
Linking Between Microsoft Project and Excel
Importing and Exporting with Excel
Producing a Visual Report of Project Data in Excel
Chapter 18 Integrating Microsoft Project with Microsoft Outlook
Exchanging Task Information with Outlook
Building Your Resource List with Outlook
Sending Project File Information
Chapter 19 Integrating Microsoft Project with Microsoft Visio
Teresa S. Stover is a project management expert who has consulted with the Microsoft Office Project Team since version 4. She is an instructional designer and award-winning author with more than two decades of technical communication experience. She is the author of countless user manuals, tutorials, and help systems—plus more than a dozen computer books, including Microsoft Office Project 2007, Microsoft Office Project 2003 Inside Out, and Microsoft Project Version 2002 Inside Out. Read more at www.stoverwriting.com.
