Learning Microsoft Project 2019

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• Learning Microsoft Project 2019
• Why subscribe?
• Contributors
• About the author
• About the reviewer
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• Preface
  • Who this book is for
  • What this book covers
  • To get the most out of this book
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  • Conventions used
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  • Reviews
• Section 1: The Iron Triangle a Quick Primer for Project Management
• Chapter 1: Project Management the Essential Primer
  • Projects what is special about them?
    • Project the definition
    • Project management
    • The project manager
  • Project management knowledge
    • Choose your fount of knowledge
    • The project life cycle
    • Project management processes
  • The challenges and benefits of project management
    • The Iron Triangle (Triple Constraint of Project Management)
    • The elephant in the room (failure rates)
    • Winning but at what cost (burnout rates)?
  • What is Microsoft Project really?
    • Gantt charts
    • When not to use MS Project
  • How this book is structured
    • Mapping to process groups and the project life cycle
    • Truly domain agnostic
    • How to read the book (end to end reading versus pinpoint references)
  • Summary
• Section 2: Project Initiation with Microsoft Project
• Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Microsoft Project
  • Technical requirements
  • Understanding the UI basics of MS Project
    • Backstage
  • Building your first simple project
  • Understanding Tasks
    • Task modes: Automatic or Manual
    • Backstage: contextual changes
    • Linking and dependencies between tasks
  • Scheduling a project
    • Resourcing your tasks
    • Allocating tasks to resources
  • Taking a closer look at views
    • Tables
    • Charts, diagrams, timelines, and graphs
    • Which view should we use?
    • Reports
  • Practice assignment
  • Summary
• Chapter 3: Initiating projects with Microsoft Project
  • Initiating projects
    • What the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) says
    • Key outcomes of the initiating stage
    • Risk over the project life cycle
  • Project for this chapter digital marketing campaign
  • Scheduling with MS Project a deeper understanding
    • Project Information and Project Options
    • Tasks
    • Linking and dependency
    • Resources
  • Revisiting the UI
    • Timeline view
    • Gantt chart UI
    • Quick Access Toolbar
    • The Indicators column
    • Options and configurations
  • Assignment
    • Case study
  • Summary
• Chapter 4: Underlying Concepts of Microsoft Project
  • Demystifying the Basic Work Formula
  • An example Project for this chapter creating online departmental manuals
    • Case 1 Change of duration
    • Case 2 Adding additional resources
    • Case 3 Increasing Units
    • Deeper scheduling
  • Exploring task types
    • Understanding the concept of Fixed Units
    • Fixed duration
    • Fixed work
    • Are your tasks effort-driven or not?
    • The impact of using task types
  • Underlying algorithms How project scheduling works
  • Understanding Project Calendars
    • Setting the Project Start Date
    • Creating your new calendar
    • Customizing your new calendar
    • Setting the Project Calendar
    • How calendars really work in Project
  • Summary
  • Assignment
• Chapter 5: Resource Management with Microsoft Project
  • Basic resource management techniques with Project
    • Creating resources
    • Allocating resources
    • Assigning resources
    • Updating resources
    • The Resource Pool feature
  • Enterprise-level resourcing concepts
  • Revisiting overallocations
  • Basic concepts of fine-tuning resource assignments
  • Best practices of resource management
  • Summary
• Section 3: Project Planning Like a Pro!
• Chapter 6: Work Breakdown Structure the Single Critical Factor
  • The planning phase in project management
  • Delving into WBS
    • The importance of the WBS
    • What is not included in the WBS
    • What does a WBS look like?
  • Standard techniques for creating a WBS
    • Some confusing aspects of WBS
    • The drawbacks of a WBS
  • Creating a robust WBS using 10 simple rules
  • Exploring the WBS feature in Microsoft Project
  • Going from a WBS to tasks
  • Summary
• Chapter 7: Tasks under the Microscope
  • The project for this chapter
    • Importing tasks from Excel into Project
  • Organizing tasks to create a schedule
    • Technique 1 Organizing a schedule using Summary Tasks
    • Technique 2 Organizing a schedule by chronological sorting
    • Technique 3 Organizing a schedule by grouping resources
    • Creating Summary Tasks from indentation
  • Special tasks and task features
    • Milestones
    • Inactivating tasks
    • Blank rows
    • Recurring tasks
    • A deeper understanding of Summary Tasks
  • Summary
• Chapter 8: Mastering Link Dependency and Constraints
  • Scheduling a quick refresher
  • Task dependencies and constraints
    • Task relationships
    • Four types of task dependencies
    • Understanding constraints
    • Selecting the correct task dependency
  • Releasing the latest application version
  • Working with task dependencies
    • Creating special dependencies
  • Working with date constraints
    • Types of date constraints
  • A few important best practices
  • Summary
• Chapter 9: Extended Customization Task and Gantt Formatting
  • Fundamentals of formatting a view
    • Formatting Text Styles
    • Gridlines
    • Layout
    • Adding a new customized column
    • Achieving an aesthetic design
  • Formatting bar styles
    • Formatting a single, specific taskbar (local-level formatting)
    • Formatting an entire category of taskbars
    • Formatting an entire Gantt chart
  • Diagnostic formatting
    • Task Path
    • Critical Tasks (critical path)
  • Summary
• Section 4: Project Execution the Real Deal
• Chapter 10: Executing Agile Projects with MS Project
  • Technical requirements
  • A brief introduction to Agile methodologies
    • The Agile Manifesto
    • Deciding between Agile and Waterfall
    • Deciding whether Agile is suited to your project
    • When you should not use Agile
  • A project on a simple e-commerce website
    • Task list for the project
  • Agile frameworks
    • Kanban and MS Project
    • Scrum and MS Project
  • Summary
• Chapter 11: Overallocation the Bane of Project Managers
  • Introducing overallocation
    • Simulating an overallocation
    • Why does overallocation exist?
    • Avoiding overallocation with the Assign Resource feature
    • Diagnosing overallocation
    • Resolving overallocation
  • Summary
• Chapter 12: Baselines Techniques and Best Practices
  • A deeper understanding of baselines
    • The need for baselines
  • Project for this chapter
  • Understanding the Variance table
  • Creating a new baseline
    • A flowchart for controlling changes with baselines
    • Variance table revisited
    • Analyzing baselines
    • Comparing multiple baselines
    • Understanding interim plans
  • Best practices when using baselines
  • Maintaining baselines
    • Updating a baseline
    • Deleting (clearing) a baseline
  • Summary
• Chapter 13: Project Tracking Techniques
  • A deeper understanding of project tracking
    • Considerations for project tracking
  • Project tracking flowchart
  • Project for this chapter
    • Relevance of the status date
  • Simple techniques for project tracking
    • Context menu update technique
    • Preset percentage complete technique
    • The Mark on Track technique
  • Update Project technique
  • Advanced techniques for project tracking
    • Advanced scheduling options
    • Variable percentage complete technique
    • Percentage complete and remaining duration technique
    • Actuals tracking technique
    • Using the Tracking Gantt Chart view
    • Assignment tracking
  • Best practices for project tracking
  • Summary
• Section 5: Monitoring and Control with Microsoft Project
• Chapter 14: Views, Tables, and Customization
  • Gaining an advanced understanding of views
    • Types of view
    • Display formats used in views
  • Understanding which view to use and when
    • Views to manage task data
    • Views to manage resource data
    • Views to manage assignment data
  • Advanced features of views
    • Understanding tables
    • Details view (also known as the split-window view)
    • Sorting of schedule data
    • Filtering and highlighting information
    • Grouping project information
  • Creating custom views
    • Creating a new view from a current view
    • Creating a new view from scratch
  • Summary
• Chapter 15 : Resource and Cost Management
  • A deeper understanding of resources and costs
    • The Work resource type
    • The Material resource type
    • The Cost resource type
  • Basics of costing in Project
    • Costing versus pricing
    • Costing is based on resourcing
    • Project for this chapter
    • Creating a Project budget
  • Costing of work resources
    • Standard rate of pay
    • Variable rate of pay
  • Costing of material resources
    • Variable costs
    • Fixed costs
  • Costing of cost resources
    • Fixed costs for resource usage
    • Fixed costs for task usage
  • Analyzing costing using different views
    • Project-level cost analysis views
    • Assignment-level cost analysis view
    • Task-level cost analysis view
    • Resource-level cost analysis view
    • Baseline cost comparison analysis
  • Summary
• Chapter 16: Critical Path Monitoring and Advanced Techniques
  • A deeper understanding of the critical path
    • What is slack?
    • What is a critical task?
    • What is the critical path?
    • What is CPM?
  • Techniques to shorten the project
    • Shortening the critical path (crashing the project)
    • Increasing parallel paths (fast-tracking the project)
    • Resource reallocation
  • Applying lag and lead time
  • Advanced overallocation resolution techniques
    • The resource leveling technique
    • The work contour technique
  • Resolving scheduling problems
  • Summary
• Chapter 17: Project Reports 101
  • Introduction to Projects reporting framework
    • Salient features of Project reports
  • Reporting architecture in Project
    • View-Table reports
    • Graphical prebuilt reports
    • Limitations of graphical reports
    • Visual (OLAP) reports
  • Best practices for status reporting
  • Summary
• Section 6: Project Closure with Microsoft Project
• Chapter 18: Reviewing Projects and Creating Templates for Success
  • Introduction to the project closing phase
  • Common error patterns in Project
    • Sequencing error patterns
    • Scheduling error patterns
  • Understanding the project closure review
    • Project comparison report tool
    • Baseline comparison tool
  • Templates for success
    • Templates in Project
    • Benefits of templates
  • Creating a new template for your organization
  • Summary
• Chapter 19: Advanced Custom Reports and Templates
  • Introduction to customized reports
  • Understanding Project's reporting architecture
    • Understanding dynamic reports
  • Modifying an existing report
  • Creating your own custom report
    • A new report resource cost balancing table report
    • A new report resource work variance bar graph report (plus costs too!)
    • Earned Value Management (EVM) report
  • Understanding the global template
    • What is stored in the global template?
    • Copying into and from the global template
  • Summary
• Chapter 20: Book Conclusion and Next Steps
  • The complete Project roadmap
    • Initiating with Project
    • Planning with Project
    • Executing with Project
    • Monitoring and controlling with Project
    • Closing with Project
  • Next steps
  • A final summary
• Appendix A: Using This Book as a Textbook
• Appendix B: Available Fields Reference
  • Task fields a small curated subset
    • Resource fields a small curated subset
    • Assignment fields a small curated subset
• Appendix C: Keyboard Shortcuts
• Appendix D: Glossary
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