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Microsoft Office Project for Mere Mortals®: Solving the Mysteries of Microsoft Office Project

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Addison-Wesley presents the For Mere Mortals® Series

Ch. 1. Introducing Microsoft Office Project

Ch. 2. Revealing the Secrets of Microsoft Project

Ch. 3. Building Your Schedule: Scoping Your Project

Ch. 4. Understanding Task Information

Ch. 5. Sequencing the Work: Creating the Critical Path

Ch. 6. Understanding Resources and Their Effects on Tasks

Ch. 7. Using Project to Enter Cost Estimates

Ch. 8. Polishing Your Schedule

Ch. 9. Reviewing Work Overload and the Critical Path

Ch. 10. Baselining: The Key to Tracking Your Schedule

Ch. 11. Tracking Your Schedule

Ch. 12. Closing Down Your Schedule: The End Is Only the Beginning

Ch. 13. Project Mysteries Resolved!

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Chapter 1

1.	You would want to use Project rather than a spreadsheet or text file to manage your projects because you can easily create and represent task relationships, understand how the work changes when you add or delete resources from a task, review the critical path, optimize your schedule, and learn from past project schedules more easily.
2.	The overall methodology for creating and maintaining a schedule in Project is as follows: Create and enter the project scope Define key task attributes Define task relationships Add resources and estimate their work Estimate the cost of tasks and the project Review the schedule Optimize the schedule Baseline Track the schedule Close down the schedule
3.	The most important functions that facilitate project success are defining project scope and identifying stakeholders and their needs.
4.	Risk management is a technique that you can use to identify risk contingencies or opportunity enhancements that you can incorporate into your schedule. Risk management itself is not part of the schedule-building process.
5.	The five project processes that you could incorporate as project phases into your schedule are Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing.
6.	Effort-based scheduling is a way to show what will change in a schedule based on the number of people you place on the task, the amount of effort (work in hours), and how long the task might take over time.
7.	Duration-based scheduling is based on identifying one person responsible for the task or tasks and their estimate of the length of time it will take to accomplish the work, rather than understanding and capturing the effort it takes to get the work done.

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