Technical details
Genre |
Office software |
Number of pages |
335 pages |
Written by |
Elaine J. Marmel |
In the Trenches with Microsoft Office Project 2007
Polish your project-management skills - and increase your impact - with real-world, in-the-trench guidance on Project 2007.
Led by a well-known Project expert, you'll learn how to apply the right tools and techniques to the most common project-management scenarios you'll encounter. Most important, you'll see the effects of different approaches in action - so you can make the best decisions for your project.
Master the Project 2007 tools and techniques needed to tame the tough and typical challenges in real-world project management.
There's theory - then there's project management in action, where you need utterly pragmatic guidance beyond just knowing how to use Project 2007. With this book, you'll get gritty, real-world advice on how to apply the right tools to the most common and challenging scenarios you'll encounter.
Microsoft Project expert Elaine Marmel helps sharpen your mastery of Project 2007, all in the context of managing real situations, in real time. Topics include planning project scope, including how to identify resources before you even have resources; structuring tasks and dependencies, and how different approaches impact results; guidance for more realistic cost-estimation and budgeting; taming budgets and schedules that want to go feral; communicating with your team and upper management; managing the complexities and curveballs in the typical work environment; and the special challenges of managing cross-project conflicts in large enterprises.