Successful Project Management: Applying Best Practices and Real-World Techniques With Microsoft Project (Business Skills)

Learn best practices and proven methods from project management professionals—and apply these skills as you work with Microsoft® Project. In this practical guide, project management expert Bonnie Biafore shows you how to manage projects efficiently and effectively, sharing the real-world experiences of project managers in several industries. You'll learn how to put the best practices and hard-won lessons of experts to work on your critical projects.

Sharpen the skills you need to manage projects expertly—from start to finish

• Communicate effectively with project stakeholders, management, and team members
• Apply methods to break down the project into small, manageable pieces
• Define work assignments, choose resources, and build project schedules
• Accurately estimate project costs and work with a budget
• Identify project changes and manage risks
• Track progress and balance priorities without sacrificing quality
• Document project history and lessons learned to help improve future projects

Project files available on the companion website.

Bonnie Biafore has always been fascinated with math in its practical and more esoteric forms. She writes excellent and entertaining books about personal finance, investing, accounting, and project management. Her NAIC Stock Selection Handbook won major awards from the Society of Technical Communication and APEX Awards for Publication Excellence (but the raves she receives from beginning investors mean much more to her).

Bonnie is also the author of O'Reilly's Online Investing Hacks, QuickBooks 2011: The Missing Manual, and Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual. She writes a monthly column called WebWatch for Better Investing magazine and is a regular contributor to http://www.interest.com. As a consultant, she manages projects for clients and wins accolades for her ability to herd cats.