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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

An example Project for this chapter – creating online departmental manuals

Now that you have gotten a handle on the Basic work Formula, you are ready to see it in action within Project. Let's start with our next hands-on project, so fire up your Project instance and let's go!

Let's begin with a case study. You are the CEO of a small greenspace management company. You are required to create two online operating manuals, which consist of 100 web pages each. One is a Quality Manual, while the other is a Technical Manual. Remember that the objective of this exercise is for you to observe how Project uses the Basic work Formula to manipulate duration and work automatically, based upon your inputs. So, we will keep this project super simple with only two tasks.

The following are the constraints for these tasks:

  • Task 1: Ten web pages can be created by one engineer in one day.
  • Task 2: The manuals are independent of each other, and only worked upon...