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Learning Microsoft Project 2019

By : Srikanth Shirodkar
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Learning Microsoft Project 2019

By: Srikanth Shirodkar

Overview of this book

Microsoft Project is one of the most popular project management tools for enterprises of all sizes thanks to its wide variety of features such as project scheduling, project budgeting, built-in templates, and reporting tools. Learning Microsoft Project 2019 will get you started with the basics and gradually guide you through the complete project life cycle. Starting with an overview of Microsoft Project 2019 and a brief introduction to project management concepts, this book will take you through the different phases of project management – initiation, planning, execution, control, and closure. You will then learn how to identify and handle problems related to scheduling, costing, resourcing, and work allocation. Understand how to use dynamic reports to create powerful, automated reports and dashboards at the click of a button. This Microsoft Project book highlights the pitfalls of overallocation and demonstrates how to avoid and resolve these issues using a wide spectrum of tools, techniques, and best practices. Finally, you will focus on executing Agile projects efficiently and get to grips with using Kanban and Scrum features. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with Microsoft Project and have the skills you need to use it effectively in every stage of project management.
Table of Contents (32 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Iron Triangle – a Quick Primer for Project Management
3
Section 2: Project Initiation with Microsoft Project
8
Section 3: Project Planning Like a Pro!
13
Section 4: Project Execution – the Real Deal
15
Chapter 11: Overallocation – the Bane of Project Managers
18
Section 5: Monitoring and Control with Microsoft Project
23
Section 6: Project Closure with Microsoft Project
Appendix A: Using This Book as a Textbook
Appendix C: Keyboard Shortcuts
Appendix D: Glossary

Taking a closer look at views

So far into our project, the screen we have been using is called a View. It is, in fact, the most popular view in Microsoft Project, and in the whole of the project management discipline, and it is called the Gantt Chart view. There are more than 30 different views available in MS Project.

MS Project can store a lot of information about your project. Views are especially predesigned subsets of this information, presented to you by Project. They offer meaningful ways to analyze and manipulate your project data. Take a moment to notice that there is a complete tab in the ribbon dedicated to Views in MS Project. There, you can access all the other 30+ main views prebuilt into Project. These views cover every imaginable perspective of the project that you can think of.

From the Task ribbon tab, the first button on the left is the Gantt chart view. Hover your mouse over this button and note that it is made up of two parts. The bottom part is a dropdown...