Microsoft Project 2013 Plain & Simple

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Wersja:	Drukowana
Autor	Ben Howard
Liczba_stron	240
Wydawnictwo	Microsoft Press
Oprawa	miękka
Data_Wydania	2013-06-07

Microsoft

Project 2013

Plain & Simple

Get the full-color, visual guide that makes learning Microsoft Project 2013 plain and simple! Follow the book’s easy steps and screenshots and clear, concise language to learn the simplest ways to effectively manage all your projects.

Here’s WHAT you’ll learn:

Develop a project plan and schedule resources
Pull together your team and plan their assignments
Understand dependencies and mitigate risks
Stay on top of progress, delays, and costs
Make adjustments and updates quickly
Communicate with clear, customized reports

Here’s HOW you’ll learn it:

Jump in wherever you need answers
Follow easy STEPS and SCREENSHOTS to see exactly what to do
Get handy TIPS for new techniques and shortcuts
Use TRY THIS! exercises to apply what you learn right away

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Chapter 1 About this book
1. No computerese!
2. A quick overview
3. A few assumptions
4. What’s new in Project 2013?
5. Using a touch-enabled system
6. A final few words
Chapter 2 Getting started with Project 2013
1. Understanding Project terminology
2. Understanding how tasks and resources relate to each other
3. Navigating Microsoft Project
4. Understanding the Backstage view
5. Adding commands to the ribbon
6. Collapsing and pinning the ribbon
7. Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
8. Understanding views, tables, filters, and groups
9. Selecting a different view
10. Displaying the View Bar
11. Displaying a different table
12. Selecting a different filter
13. Selecting a different group
14. Working with and inserting columns in a table
15. Hiding a column
16. Moving a column
17. Resizing a column
18. Saving a modified view
19. Displaying the Project Summary Task
Chapter 3 Getting the Project basics right
1. Assigning a different calendar as the Project Calendar
2. Setting the calendar’s working week
3. Defining public and organizational holidays
4. Defining the calendar options
5. Entering the project start date
6. Setting the project properties and basic options
7. Setting the project currency
8. Changing the default view and date format
9. Saving the project to a local drive
10. Saving the project to SkyDrive
11. Saving the project to Project Server 2013 or Project Online
12. Saving and synchronizing the project to SharePoint 2013
Chapter 4 Creating and modifying tasks
1. Understanding and setting the schedule mode
2. Entering tasks
3. Indenting tasks
4. Outdenting tasks
5. Inserting new tasks into the schedule
6. Moving tasks around the schedule
7. Moving summary tasks around the schedule
8. Deleting tasks
Chapter 5 Setting estimates
1. Entering duration estimates for detail tasks
2. Entering duration estimates for summary tasks
3. Entering work estimates
4. Marking tasks that need an estimation review
Chapter 6 Linking the tasks
1. Linking dependent tasks
2. Changing the dependency type
3. Unlinking tasks
4. Adding a lag or lead time to a dependency
5. Displaying task paths
Chapter 7 Assigning and managing resources
1. Creating work resources quickly in the Gantt Chart view
2. Creating resources using the Resource Sheet
3. Modifying resources
4. Changing the maximum units for a resource
5. Changing a resource’s working day
6. Entering resource holidays
7. Assigning a single work resource to a task
8. Assigning multiple work resources to a task
9. Adjusting the work, duration, and assignment units for a task
10. Assigning material resources to a task
11. Assigning cost resources to a task
12. Resolving overallocated resources using the Task Inspector
13. Resolving overallocated resources using the Team Planner
14. Deleting resources
Chapter 8 Adding external dependencies and deadlines
1. Adding a deadline to a task
2. Changing a start or finish date for manually scheduled tasks
3. Adding external dependencies for auto scheduled tasks
4. Adding a specific calendar to a task
5. Planning for tasks that might not happen!
Chapter 9 Communicating the plan
1. Formatting the table area
2. Formatting individual bars or a selection of bars
3. Formatting all the bars at once
4. Viewing the Task Path
5. Displaying the critical path
6. Showing and hiding dependency links
7. Viewing and printing the Project Overview report
8. Viewing and copying burndown reports
9. Printing the project schedule
10. Using Visual Reports
11. Using the Timeline view
12. Formatting the Timeline view
13. Copying the Timeline view to other applications
14. Printing the Timeline view
15. Sharing the plan using SharePoint
16. Synchronizing with a SharePoint task list
17. Emailing the project schedule
Chapter 10 Updating and replanning
1. Setting a baseline
2. Clearing a baseline
3. Updating an existing baseline
4. Rescheduling the entire plan to start on a new date
5. Updating %Complete for individual tasks
6. Updating %Work Complete for specific tasks
7. Setting and displaying the Status Date
8. Updating %Complete for the entire project at once
9. Updating tasks with Actual Start, Actual Duration, and Remaining Duration
10. Updating tasks with actual work done per period and remaining work
11. Rescheduling uncompleted work to a future date
12. Moving tasks forward or backward in the schedule
13. Amending remaining duration and work estimates
Chapter 11 Closing the project
1. Setting any remaining duration or work to zero
2. Setting milestones to 100% complete
3. Inactivating unnecessary tasks
4. Comparing the final schedule to the baseline
5. Comparing different project versions
6. Saving a plan as a template