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Introduction.................................................................7
Part 1: Setting the Stage for Project...............................7
Chapter 1: Project Management: What Is It, and Why Should You Care?....................9
Chapter 2: The Best Laid Plans.......................................................................................35
Chapter 3: Mark It on Your Calendar.............................................................................51
Chapter 4: A Tisket, a Task Kit........................................................................................69
Chapter 5: Getting Your Outline in Line.........................................................................93
Chapter 6: Timing Is Everything...................................................................................113
Part U: People Who Need People...............................127
Chapter 7: Using Your Natural Resources...................................................................129
Chapter 8: What s All This Gonna Cost?......................................................................147
Chapter 9: Assigning Resources to Get Things Done................................................161
Part HI: Wed, It Looks Good on Paper........................7 77
Chapter 10: Fine Tuning Your Plan...............................................................................179
Chapter 11: Making Your Project Look Good..............................................................203
Part IV: Avoiding disaster: Staging On Track..............215
Chapter 12: It All Begins with a Baseline.....................................................................217
Chapter 13: On the Right Track....................................................................................227
Chapter 14: A Project with a View: Observing Progress...........................................249
Chapter 15: You re Behind: Now What?.......................................................................263
Chapter 16: Spreading the News: Reporting...............................................................279
Chapter 17: Getting Better All the Time......................................................................303
Part V: Working With Enterprise Projects....................317
Chapter 18: Project Web Access for the Project Manager........................................319
Chapter 19: Project Web Access for the End User.....................................................335
Part VI: The Part of Tens...........................................345
Chapter 20: Ten Golden Rules of Project Management.............................................347
Chapter 21: Ten Project Management Software Products to Explore......................357
Pan l/lh Appendixes.................................................303
Appendix A: On the CD..................................................................................................365
Appendix B: Glossary....................................................................................................371
Index.......................................................................379
Table of Contents
Introduction..................................................................7
About This Book...............................................................................................1
Foolish Assumptions.......................................................................................1
Conventions Used in This Book.....................................................................2
How This Book Is Organized...........................................................................2
Part I: Setting the Stage for Project......................................................2
Part II: People Who Need People..........................................................3
Part III: Well, It Looks Good on Paper..................................................3
Part IV: Avoiding Disaster: Staying on Track......................................3
Part V: Working with Enterprise Projects............................................3
Part VI: The Part of Tens.......................................................................4
Part VII: Appendixes...............................................................................4
What You re Not to Read.................................................................................4
Icons Used in This Book..................................................................................4
Where to Go from Here....................................................................................5
Part 1: Setting the Stage for Project................................7
Chapter 1: Project Management: What Is It,
and Why Should You Care?.....................................9
The ABCs of Project Management...............................................................10
The three Ts: Tasks, timing, and dependencies
(well, two Ts and a D).......................................................................10
Lining up your resources.....................................................................14
Spreading the news..............................................................................16
Planning to keep things on track........................................................17
The Role of the Project Manager..................................................................18
What exactly does a project manager do?........................................18
Understanding the dreaded triple constraint...................................19
Applying tried and true methodologies............................................19
From To Do List to Hard Drive......................................................................22
Getting up to speed with Project........................................................22
Collaborating with your project team online....................................23
Getting Started...............................................................................................23
Getting going with help from Project Guide......................................24
Starting from scratch...........................................................................25
Starting with templates.......................................................................30
Saving a Project for Posterity.......................................................................32
Getting Help from Project.............................................................................32
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Chapter 2: The Best Laid Plans.................................35
Navigating Project..........................................................................................35
Changing views.....................................................................................35
Scrolling around...................................................................................37
Getting to a specific spot in your plan...............................................39
A Project with a View.....................................................................................39
Home base: Gantt Chart view.............................................................40
Going with the flow: Network Diagram view.....................................41
Calling up Calendar view.....................................................................42
Customizing Views.........................................................................................43
Working with view panes.....................................................................44
Modifying the contents of the Network Diagram boxes..................48
Chapter 3: Mark It on Your Calendar ............................51
Mastering Base, Project, Resource, and Task Calendars..........................52
How calendars work............................................................................52
How one calendar relates to another................................................54
Calendar Options and Working Times.........................................................54
Setting calendar options......................................................................55
Setting exceptions to working times..................................................57
Setting the Project calendar.........................................................................58
Using Project Guide to Make Calendar Settings.........................................60
Modifying Task Calendars.............................................................................62
Making Resource Calendar Settings............................................................63
Which resources get calendars?.........................................................63
Making the change to a resource s calendar....................................63
Do It Yourself: Creating a Custom Calendar Template..............................65
Sharing Copies of Calendars.........................................................................67
Chapter 4: A Tisket, a Task Kit..................................69
Tackling Your First Task................................................................................69
Identifying what makes up a task.......................................................70
Creating a task......................................................................................71
You re in It for the Duration..........................................................................78
Tasks come in all flavors: Identifying task type................................78
Setting task duration............................................................................80
Setting tasks with no duration: Milestones.......................................81
Showing up again and again: Recurring tasks..................................81
Starting and Pausing Tasks...........................................................................83
Entering the task start date................................................................84
Taking a break: Splitting tasks............................................................84
It s Such an Effort: Effort Driven Tasks........................................................85
Constraints You Can Live With.....................................................................86
Understanding how constraints work...............................................86
Establishing constraints......................................................................87
Setting a deadline.................................................................................88
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Making a Task Note........................................................................................88
Saving Your Project — and Your Tasks.......................................................89
Task Information in Action: Planning Your Next Space Launch...............91
Chapter 5: Getting Your Outline in Line..........................93
Summary Tasks and Subtasks......................................................................93
Project phases......................................................................................94
How many levels can you go?.............................................................95
The One and Only Project Summary Task..................................................95
Structuring the Project s Outline.................................................................97
Everything but the kitchen sink: What to include...........................98
Building the outline............................................................................100
Moving Tasks All around Your Outline......................................................101
The outdent and indent shuffle........................................................101
Moving tasks up and down...............................................................102
Now You See It, Now You Don t: Collapsing and Expanding Tasks........104
Cracking the WBS Code...............................................................................107
Displaying a WBS code......................................................................108
Customizing the code........................................................................109
Chapter 6: Timing Is Everything................................113
How Tasks Become Codependent..............................................................114
Dependent tasks: Which comes first?..............................................114
Dependency types..............................................................................115
Allowing for Murphy s Law: Lag and lead time...............................118
Making the Dependency Connection.........................................................118
Adding the missing (dependency) link............................................119
Extending your reach with external dependencies.......................121
Understanding that things change: Deleting dependencies.........122
Just Look at All These Task Dependencies!..............................................124
Part 11: People Who Need People................................127
Chapter 7: Using Your Natural Resources.......................129
Resources: People, Places, and Things.....................................................130
Becoming Resource full...............................................................................130
Understanding resources..................................................................131
Resource types: Work, material, and cost.......................................133
How resources affect task timing.....................................................134
Estimating resource requirements...................................................135
Committed versus proposed resources..........................................135
The Birth of a Resource...............................................................................136
Creating one at a time........................................................................136
Identifying resources before you know their names.....................137
Resources that hang out in groups..................................................138
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Sharing Resources........................................................................................138
In the swim: Drawing on resource pools.........................................139
Importing resources from Outlook..................................................140
Say, When Do These Guys Work?...............................................................142
Now That I ve Got Em, How Do I Manage Em?.......................................144
Acquiring the right resources...........................................................144
Balancing workload............................................................................145
Managing conflict gracefully.............................................................146
Chapter 8: What s All This Gonna Cost? ........................147
Mary, Mary, How Do Your Costs Accrue?.................................................147
It all adds up........................................................................................148
When will this hit the bottom line?..................................................149
Pay Day: Assigning Resources to Your Project........................................149
There s no avoiding fixed costs........................................................149
When resources get paid per hour...................................................151
If you use ten gallons at $2 per gallon..........................................151
Making allowances for overtime......................................................152
It s an Availability Thing..............................................................................153
Setting availability..............................................................................153
When a resource comes and goes....................................................154
Adding It Up: How Your Settings Affect Your Budget..............................155
Customizing Cost Fields..............................................................................156
Working with Budgets..................................................................................159
Chapter 9: Assigning Resources to Get Things Done.............161
You d Be Surprised What Assignments Can Do to Your Timing.............162
Pinning down your type....................................................................162
When effort is in the driver s seat....................................................163
Suppose task calendars prevail?......................................................164
Finding the Right Resource.........................................................................165
Needed: One good resource willing to work...................................165
Custom fields: It s a skill....................................................................167
A Useful Assignation....................................................................................168
Determining work material and cost resource
assignment units.............................................................................168
Making your assignments..................................................................168
Getting the contour that s right for you..........................................171
Communicating an Assignment to Your Team.........................................173
It s in the e mail...................................................................................173
Report your findings..........................................................................174
Table of Contents
Part 111: Weft, It Looks Good on Paper.........................177
Chapter 10: Fine Tuning Your Plan.............................179
Everything Filters to the Bottom Line.......................................................179
Predesigned filters.............................................................................180
Putting AutoFilters to work...............................................................181
Do it yourself filters...........................................................................182
Hanging Out in Groups................................................................................184
Applying predefined groups..............................................................184
Devising your own groups.................................................................185
Figuring Out What s Driving Your Project.................................................187
Spotting Task Drivers.........................................................................188
Undo, undo, undo...............................................................................188
Highlighting changes..........................................................................189
It s About Time.............................................................................................191
Giving yourself some slack................................................................191
Doing it in less time............................................................................194
Getting It for Less.........................................................................................195
Your Resource Recourse.............................................................................196
Checking resource availability..........................................................196
Deleting or modifying a resource assignment................................198
Getting some help..............................................................................199
Getting your resources level.............................................................200
Mixing Solutions Up.....................................................................................202
Chapter 11: Making Your Project Look Good....................203
Putting Your Best Foot Forward.................................................................203
Formatting Taskbars....................................................................................204
Formatting Task Boxes................................................................................207
Adjusting the Layout...................................................................................208
Modifying Gridlines......................................................................................212
When a Picture Can Say It All.....................................................................213
Part IV: Avoiding Disaster: Staying On Track..............215
Chapter 12: It All Begins with a Baseline.......................217
All about Baselines.......................................................................................217
What does a baseline look like?........................................................218
How do I save a baseline?..................................................................218
What if I want more than one baseline?..........................................220
How do I clear and reset a baseline?...............................................221
In the Interim................................................................................................222
Saving an interim plan.......................................................................223
Clearing and resetting a plan............................................................224
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Chapter 13: On the Right Track ................................227
Gathering Your Data....................................................................................227
A method to your tracking madness...............................................228
Going door to door.............................................................................229
Where Does All This Information Go?.......................................................230
Doing things with the Tracking toolbar...........................................230
For everything there is a view..........................................................231
Tracking your work for the record............................................................233
Progress as of when?..........................................................................233
Percentage complete: How to tell?...................................................234
When did you start? When did you finish?.....................................236
John worked three hours, Maisie worked ten................................237
Uh oh, we re into overtime................................................................239
Specifying remaining durations........................................................239
Entering iixed cost updates..............................................................240
Update Project: Sweeping Changes for Dummies....................................241
Tracking Materials Usage............................................................................243
Tracking More Than One: Consolidated Projects....................................244
Consolidating projects.......................................................................244
Updating consolidated projects.......................................................246
Changing linking settings..................................................................246
Chapter 14: A Project with a View: Observing Progress..........249
Look at What Tracking Did!.........................................................................250
Getting an indication..........................................................................250
Lines of progress................................................................................251
When worlds collide: Baseline versus actual.................................255
Learn by the Numbers.................................................................................256
Acronym Soup: BCWP, ACWP, EAC, and CV..............................................257
Calculations behind the Scenes.................................................................258
Going automatic or manual...............................................................258
Earned value options.........................................................................260
How many critical paths are enough?.............................................261
Chapter 15: You re Behind: Now What? ........................263
Justifying Yourself: Notes, Baselines, and Interim Plans.........................263
What If?..........................................................................................................265
Sorting things out...............................................................................265
Filtering................................................................................................266
Examining the critical path...............................................................268
Use resource leveling one more time...............................................268
What s driving the timing of this task?............................................268
Using the Analysis Toolbar.........................................................................270
How Adding People or Time Affects Your Project...................................272
Hurry up!.............................................................................................272
Throwing people at the problem......................................................272
Shifting dependencies and task timing............................................274
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When All Else Fails.......................................................................................275
All the time in the world....................................................................275
And now for something completely different.................................276
What Does Project Have to Say About This?............................................277
Chapter 16: Spreading the News: Reporting ....................279
Off the Rack: Standard Reports..................................................................279
What s available..................................................................................280
Going with the standard....................................................................280
A standard report, with a twist.........................................................281
Crosstabs: A different animal............................................................285
A Custom Job................................................................................................285
Get a New Perspective on Data with Visual Reports...............................286
Getting an overview of what s available..........................................287
Creating a Visual Report....................................................................287
Spiffing Things Up........................................................................................289
Using graphics in Project..................................................................289
Formatting reports.............................................................................292
Call the Printer!.............................................................................................294
Working with Page Setup...................................................................294
Get a preview......................................................................................299
So Let s Print!................................................................................................300
Chapter 17: Getting Better All the Time.........................303
Learning from Your Mistakes......................................................................303
It was only an estimate......................................................................304
Debrief your team...............................................................................305
Building on Your Success............................................................................306
Create a template...............................................................................306
Master the Organizer.........................................................................308
Handy little timesavers: Macros.......................................................310
Customizing Project Guide.........................................................................314
Part V: Working With Enterprise Projects.....................317
Chapter 18: Project Web Access for the Project Manager........319
Figuring Out Whether Project Web Access Is for You.............................320
Getting a Handle on What You Can Do with Project Web Access..........322
Planning to Use Project Server and Project Web Access........................323
Get a team together............................................................................323
Gather information.............................................................................324
Standardize processes.......................................................................324
Coordinate with IT..............................................................................325
Planning for problems.......................................................................325
Microsoft Project 2007 For Dummies
Looking Over the Project Web Access Tools............................................325
Make assignments and delegate tasks.............................................326
Track your progress...........................................................................327
Figure out what s going on with status reports..............................328
Working with the Gang Online....................................................................329
Check resource availability and assignments.................................329
Build a project team...........................................................................330
Request a status report.....................................................................332
Share documents................................................................................332
Chapter 19: Project Web Access for the End User ...............335
Seeing Project Web Access from the User s Perspective........................335
Reporting Work Completed........................................................................336
Viewing Project Information.......................................................................339
Setting Up Alerts and Reminders...............................................................340
Viewing Information about Other Users...................................................341
Part VI: The Part of Tens............................................345
Chapter 20: Ten Golden Rules of Project Management...........347
Don t Bite Off More Than You Can Manage..............................................347
Get Your Ducks in a Row.............................................................................348
Plan for Murphy...........................................................................................349
Don t Put Off Until Tomorrow.....................................................................350
Delegate, Delegate, Delegate!......................................................................350
CYA (Document!)..........................................................................................351
Keep Your Team in the Loop......................................................................352
Measure Success..........................................................................................352
Have a Flexible Strategy..............................................................................354
Learn from Your Mistakes...........................................................................355
Chapter 21: Ten Project Management Software Products
to Explore ..................................................357
DecisionEdge Chart and Report Products Enhance
Project s Own Tools.................................................................................358
Cobra Squeezes the Most from Cost/Earned Value.................................358
MindManuals Helps You Visualize Project Information..........................359
Innate Integrates Projects Large and Small..............................................359
PlanView Models Your Workforce Capacity..............................................360
Tenrox Streamlines Business Processes...................................................360
Project KickStart Gives Your Project a Head Start...................................361
Project Manager s Assistant Organizes Drawings
for Construction Projects........................................................................361
TeamTrack Solves Mission Critical Issues................................................362
EPK Suite Eases Portfolio Mangement Chores.........................................362
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Part (Ah Appendixes..................................................363
Appendix A: On the CD.......................................365
System Requirements..................................................................................365
Using the CD.................................................................................................365
What You ll Find on the CD.........................................................................366
Empire Suite, from WSG System Corp.............................................366
EPK Suite 4.1, from EPK GROUP, LLC...............................................367
Milestones Professional, from Kidasa Software.............................367
Milestones Project Companion 2006, from Kidasa Software........367
MindManager Pro 6, from Mindjet Corporation.............................368
PERT Chart Expert, from Critical Tools, Inc....................................368
PertMaster Project Risk, from PertMaster......................................368
Plan View Project Portfolio, from Plan View.....................................368
Project KickStart, from Experience in Software.............................369
WBS Chart Pro, from Critical Tools, Inc..........................................369
Troubleshooting...........................................................................................369
Customer Care....................................................................................370
Appendix B: Glossary........................................371
Index.................................379
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction.7
Part 1: Setting the Stage for Project.7
Chapter 1: Project Management: What Is It, and Why Should You Care?.9
Chapter 2: The Best Laid Plans.35
Chapter 3: Mark It on Your Calendar.51
Chapter 4: A Tisket, a Task Kit.69
Chapter 5: Getting Your Outline in Line.93
Chapter 6: Timing Is Everything.113
Part U: People Who Need People.127
Chapter 7: Using Your Natural Resources.129
Chapter 8: What's All This Gonna Cost?.147
Chapter 9: Assigning Resources to Get Things Done.161
Part HI: Wed, It Looks Good on Paper.7 77
Chapter 10: Fine Tuning Your Plan.179
Chapter 11: Making Your Project Look Good.203
Part IV: Avoiding disaster: Staging On Track.215
Chapter 12: It All Begins with a Baseline.217
Chapter 13: On the Right Track.227
Chapter 14: A Project with a View: Observing Progress.249
Chapter 15: You're Behind: Now What?.263
Chapter 16: Spreading the News: Reporting.279
Chapter 17: Getting Better All the Time.303
Part V: Working With Enterprise Projects.317
Chapter 18: Project Web Access for the Project Manager.319
Chapter 19: Project Web Access for the End User.335
Part VI: The Part of Tens.345
Chapter 20: Ten Golden Rules of Project Management.347
Chapter 21: Ten Project Management Software Products to Explore.357
Pan l/lh Appendixes.303
Appendix A: On the CD.365
Appendix B: Glossary.371
Index.379
Table of Contents
Introduction.7
About This Book.1
Foolish Assumptions.1
Conventions Used in This Book.2
How This Book Is Organized.2
Part I: Setting the Stage for Project.2
Part II: People Who Need People.3
Part III: Well, It Looks Good on Paper.3
Part IV: Avoiding Disaster: Staying on Track.3
Part V: Working with Enterprise Projects.3
Part VI: The Part of Tens.4
Part VII: Appendixes.4
What You're Not to Read.4
Icons Used in This Book.4
Where to Go from Here.5
Part 1: Setting the Stage for Project.7
Chapter 1: Project Management: What Is It,
and Why Should You Care?.9
The ABCs of Project Management.10
The three Ts: Tasks, timing, and dependencies
(well, two Ts and a D).10
Lining up your resources.14
Spreading the news.16
Planning to keep things on track.17
The Role of the Project Manager.18
What exactly does a project manager do?.18
Understanding the dreaded triple constraint.19
Applying tried and true methodologies.19
From To Do List to Hard Drive.22
Getting up to speed with Project.22
Collaborating with your project team online.23
Getting Started.23
Getting going with help from Project Guide.24
Starting from scratch.25
Starting with templates.30
Saving a Project for Posterity.32
Getting Help from Project.32
Microsoft Project 2007 For Dummies
Chapter 2: The Best Laid Plans.35
Navigating Project.35
Changing views.35
Scrolling around.37
Getting to a specific spot in your plan.39
A Project with a View.39
Home base: Gantt Chart view.40
Going with the flow: Network Diagram view.41
Calling up Calendar view.42
Customizing Views.43
Working with view panes.44
Modifying the contents of the Network Diagram boxes.48
Chapter 3: Mark It on Your Calendar .51
Mastering Base, Project, Resource, and Task Calendars.52
How calendars work.52
How one calendar relates to another.54
Calendar Options and Working Times.54
Setting calendar options.55
Setting exceptions to working times.57
Setting the Project calendar.58
Using Project Guide to Make Calendar Settings.60
Modifying Task Calendars.62
Making Resource Calendar Settings.63
Which resources get calendars?.63
Making the change to a resource's calendar.63
Do It Yourself: Creating a Custom Calendar Template.65
Sharing Copies of Calendars.67
Chapter 4: A Tisket, a Task Kit.69
Tackling Your First Task.69
Identifying what makes up a task.70
Creating a task.71
You're in It for the Duration.78
Tasks come in all flavors: Identifying task type.78
Setting task duration.80
Setting tasks with no duration: Milestones.81
Showing up again and again: Recurring tasks.81
Starting and Pausing Tasks.83
Entering the task start date.84
Taking a break: Splitting tasks.84
It's Such an Effort: Effort Driven Tasks.85
Constraints You Can Live With.86
Understanding how constraints work.86
Establishing constraints.87
Setting a deadline.88
Table of Contents
Making a Task Note.88
Saving Your Project — and Your Tasks.89
Task Information in Action: Planning Your Next Space Launch.91
Chapter 5: Getting Your Outline in Line.93
Summary Tasks and Subtasks.93
Project phases.94
How many levels can you go?.95
The One and Only Project Summary Task.95
Structuring the Project's Outline.97
Everything but the kitchen sink: What to include.98
Building the outline.100
Moving Tasks All around Your Outline.101
The outdent and indent shuffle.101
Moving tasks up and down.102
Now You See It, Now You Don't: Collapsing and Expanding Tasks.104
Cracking the WBS Code.107
Displaying a WBS code.108
Customizing the code.109
Chapter 6: Timing Is Everything.113
How Tasks Become Codependent.114
Dependent tasks: Which comes first?.114
Dependency types.115
Allowing for Murphy's Law: Lag and lead time.118
Making the Dependency Connection.118
Adding the missing (dependency) link.119
Extending your reach with external dependencies.121
Understanding that things change: Deleting dependencies.122
Just Look at All These Task Dependencies!.124
Part 11: People Who Need People.127
Chapter 7: Using Your Natural Resources.129
Resources: People, Places, and Things.130
Becoming Resource full.130
Understanding resources.131
Resource types: Work, material, and cost.133
How resources affect task timing.134
Estimating resource requirements.135
Committed versus proposed resources.135
The Birth of a Resource.136
Creating one at a time.136
Identifying resources before you know their names.137
Resources that hang out in groups.138
Microsoft Project 2007 For Dummies
Sharing Resources.138
In the swim: Drawing on resource pools.139
Importing resources from Outlook.140
Say, When Do These Guys Work?.142
Now That I've Got 'Em, How Do I Manage 'Em?.144
Acquiring the right resources.144
Balancing workload.145
Managing conflict gracefully.146
Chapter 8: What's All This Gonna Cost? .147
Mary, Mary, How Do Your Costs Accrue?.147
It all adds up.148
When will this hit the bottom line?.149
Pay Day: Assigning Resources to Your Project.149
There's no avoiding fixed costs.149
When resources get paid per hour.151
If you use ten gallons at $2 per gallon.151
Making allowances for overtime.152
It's an Availability Thing.153
Setting availability.153
When a resource comes and goes.154
Adding It Up: How Your Settings Affect Your Budget.155
Customizing Cost Fields.156
Working with Budgets.159
Chapter 9: Assigning Resources to Get Things Done.161
You'd Be Surprised What Assignments Can Do to Your Timing.162
Pinning down your type.162
When effort is in the driver's seat.163
Suppose task calendars prevail?.164
Finding the Right Resource.165
Needed: One good resource willing to work.165
Custom fields: It's a skill.167
A Useful Assignation.168
Determining work material and cost resource
assignment units.168
Making your assignments.168
Getting the contour that's right for you.171
Communicating an Assignment to Your Team.173
It's in the e mail.173
Report your findings.174
Table of Contents
Part 111: Weft, It Looks Good on Paper.177
Chapter 10: Fine Tuning Your Plan.179
Everything Filters to the Bottom Line.179
Predesigned filters.180
Putting AutoFilters to work.181
Do it yourself filters.182
Hanging Out in Groups.184
Applying predefined groups.184
Devising your own groups.185
Figuring Out What's Driving Your Project.187
Spotting Task Drivers.188
Undo, undo, undo.188
Highlighting changes.189
It's About Time.191
Giving yourself some slack.191
Doing it in less time.194
Getting It for Less.195
Your Resource Recourse.196
Checking resource availability.196
Deleting or modifying a resource assignment.198
Getting some help.199
Getting your resources level.200
Mixing Solutions Up.202
Chapter 11: Making Your Project Look Good.203
Putting Your Best Foot Forward.203
Formatting Taskbars.204
Formatting Task Boxes.207
Adjusting the Layout.208
Modifying Gridlines.212
When a Picture Can Say It All.213
Part IV: Avoiding Disaster: Staying On Track.215
Chapter 12: It All Begins with a Baseline.217
All about Baselines.217
What does a baseline look like?.218
How do I save a baseline?.218
What if I want more than one baseline?.220
How do I clear and reset a baseline?.221
In the Interim.222
Saving an interim plan.223
Clearing and resetting a plan.224
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Chapter 13: On the Right Track .227
Gathering Your Data.227
A method to your tracking madness.228
Going door to door.229
Where Does All This Information Go?.230
Doing things with the Tracking toolbar.230
For everything there is a view.231
Tracking your work for the record.233
Progress as of when?.233
Percentage complete: How to tell?.234
When did you start? When did you finish?.236
John worked three hours, Maisie worked ten.237
Uh oh, we're into overtime.239
Specifying remaining durations.239
Entering iixed cost updates.240
Update Project: Sweeping Changes for Dummies.241
Tracking Materials Usage.243
Tracking More Than One: Consolidated Projects.244
Consolidating projects.244
Updating consolidated projects.246
Changing linking settings.246
Chapter 14: A Project with a View: Observing Progress.249
Look at What Tracking Did!.250
Getting an indication.250
Lines of progress.251
When worlds collide: Baseline versus actual.255
Learn by the Numbers.256
Acronym Soup: BCWP, ACWP, EAC, and CV.257
Calculations behind the Scenes.258
Going automatic or manual.258
Earned value options.260
How many critical paths are enough?.261
Chapter 15: You're Behind: Now What? .263
Justifying Yourself: Notes, Baselines, and Interim Plans.263
What If?.265
Sorting things out.265
Filtering.266
Examining the critical path.268
Use resource leveling one more time.268
What's driving the timing of this task?.268
Using the Analysis Toolbar.270
How Adding People or Time Affects Your Project.272
Hurry up!.272
Throwing people at the problem.272
Shifting dependencies and task timing.274
Table of Contents
When All Else Fails.275
All the time in the world.275
And now for something completely different.276
What Does Project Have to Say About This?.277
Chapter 16: Spreading the News: Reporting .279
Off the Rack: Standard Reports.279
What's available.280
Going with the standard.280
A standard report, with a twist.281
Crosstabs: A different animal.285
A Custom Job.285
Get a New Perspective on Data with Visual Reports.286
Getting an overview of what's available.287
Creating a Visual Report.287
Spiffing Things Up.289
Using graphics in Project.289
Formatting reports.292
Call the Printer!.294
Working with Page Setup.294
Get a preview.299
So Let's Print!.300
Chapter 17: Getting Better All the Time.303
Learning from Your Mistakes.303
It was only an estimate.304
Debrief your team.305
Building on Your Success.306
Create a template.306
Master the Organizer.308
Handy little timesavers: Macros.310
Customizing Project Guide.314
Part V: Working With Enterprise Projects.317
Chapter 18: Project Web Access for the Project Manager.319
Figuring Out Whether Project Web Access Is for You.320
Getting a Handle on What You Can Do with Project Web Access.322
Planning to Use Project Server and Project Web Access.323
Get a team together.323
Gather information.324
Standardize processes.324
Coordinate with IT.325
Planning for problems.325
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Looking Over the Project Web Access Tools.325
Make assignments and delegate tasks.326
Track your progress.327
Figure out what's going on with status reports.328
Working with the Gang Online.329
Check resource availability and assignments.329
Build a project team.330
Request a status report.332
Share documents.332
Chapter 19: Project Web Access for the End User .335
Seeing Project Web Access from the User's Perspective.335
Reporting Work Completed.336
Viewing Project Information.339
Setting Up Alerts and Reminders.340
Viewing Information about Other Users.341
Part VI: The Part of Tens.345
Chapter 20: Ten Golden Rules of Project Management.347
Don't Bite Off More Than You Can Manage.347
Get Your Ducks in a Row.348
Plan for Murphy.349
Don't Put Off Until Tomorrow.350
Delegate, Delegate, Delegate!.350
CYA (Document!).351
Keep Your Team in the Loop.352
Measure Success.352
Have a Flexible Strategy.354
Learn from Your Mistakes.355
Chapter 21: Ten Project Management Software Products
to Explore .357
DecisionEdge Chart and Report Products Enhance
Project's Own Tools.358
Cobra Squeezes the Most from Cost/Earned Value.358
MindManuals Helps You Visualize Project Information.359
Innate Integrates Projects Large and Small.359
PlanView Models Your Workforce Capacity.360
Tenrox Streamlines Business Processes.360
Project KickStart Gives Your Project a Head Start.361
Project Manager's Assistant Organizes Drawings
for Construction Projects.361
TeamTrack Solves Mission Critical Issues.362
EPK Suite Eases Portfolio Mangement Chores.362
Table of Contents
Part (Ah Appendixes.363
Appendix A: On the CD.365
System Requirements.365
Using the CD.365
What You'll Find on the CD.366
Empire Suite, from WSG System Corp.366
EPK Suite 4.1, from EPK GROUP, LLC.367
Milestones Professional, from Kidasa Software.367
Milestones Project Companion 2006, from Kidasa Software.367
MindManager Pro 6, from Mindjet Corporation.368
PERT Chart Expert, from Critical Tools, Inc.368
PertMaster Project Risk, from PertMaster.368
Plan View Project Portfolio, from Plan View.368
Project KickStart, from Experience in Software.369
WBS Chart Pro, from Critical Tools, Inc.369
Troubleshooting.369
Customer Care.370
Appendix B: Glossary.371
Index.379 |
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