Managing Projects With Microsoft Project 98: For Windows - Softcover

Gwen Lowery

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0442025521 ISBN 13: 9780442025526

Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1998

Synopsis

This clear, concise guide for project managers explains the fundamentals of project management and the full features of Microsoft Project '97, the latest version of the software scheduled to be released in July 1997. With this guide novice and experienced project managers alike will learn how to successfully manage all their projects.

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From the Publisher

Written by Microsoft(r) insiders, this concise guide leads you step by step through key project management stages, explores multiple ways to tailor Project '98 to your specific use and explains how to effectively manage multiple projects. Combining job-tested project management strategies and the full features of Microsoft(r) Project '98 this unique resource helps you schedule and manage every project on time and within budget.

From the Back Cover

Managing Projects with Microsoft® Project 98 For Windows™ Gwen Lowery and Rob Ferrara Get the Most out of Your Projects with the Most Successful Project Management Strategies and the World’s #1 Project Management Software. Now in a totally revised and updated edition of the bestselling classic written for first-time project leaders and experienced business professionals alike, Managing Projects With Microsoft Project 98 offers a masterful combination: a series of success-proven project management strategies in all phases of the process plus an insider’s guide to the most powerful and versatile project management software on the market today. ...a world-class projects tutor and a think-of-everything assistant all in one! Microsoft Project 98 marks a quantum leap forward for this acclaimed software tool. Lowery and Ferrara’s remarkable guide goes stride for stride with the new program, incorporating coverage of dozens of new features and enhancements for:

Creating and Tracking Projects — explore Microsoft Project 98’s new method of calculating task durations and schedules plus its new task scheduling, linking, and tracking features.

Managing Resources and Costs Efficiently — the program offers a number of new ways to help you manage money and time, including Task Splitting, Resource Contouring, Multiple and Variable Resource Rates,Resource and Task Usage Views, User-Entered Actual Costs, and more.

Enriching Plans Via the Internet — launch your project into cyberspace with the new Web Toolbar, plus options for publishing your plan on the Web and linking Web documents into the plan.

Sharing Project Information—put the program’s easier-than-ever importing and exporting, workgroup set-up, and Intranet support features to work.

Working Faster and Smarter — new data entry features, auto filters, view displays, graphics inserts, and "Indicator" icon prompts, plus new printing options, make the job go quicker and smoother.Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 98 features a complete new chapter on established electronically-linked workgroups on and off the Web.

Edition details

• Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0442025521
• ISBN 13: 9780442025526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400