Microsoft Project 2019 Step by Step

The quick way to learn Microsoft Project 2019!

This is learning made easy. Get more done quickly with Microsoft Project 2019. Jump in wherever you need answers-brisk lessons and informative screenshots show you exactly what to do, step by step. Other Project users will want to grab this book as well.

• Quickly start new plans, build task lists, and assign resources

• View resource capacity and track progress

• Capture and fine-tune work and cost details

• Visualize schedules with Gantt charts and other views and reports

• Consolidate projects, and share resources across plans

• Manage modern Agile projects (James Mills, Jr., contributor)

• Customize Project to maximize your efficiency

• Leverage improvements to task linking, timelines, and accessibility

• Master PM best practices while you learn Project

• Look up just the tasks and lessons you need

Auteur

Cindy Lewis is a project management consultant and trainer with 4 Pillars of Success, her consultancy business. She travels frequently to help clients around the world gain business value and is also a sought-after speaker who presents on a variety of topics related to project management.

Cindy is a multiyear recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award, with specific expertise in Microsoft Project and Project Online. She is also a Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS), Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT).

In addition, Cindy is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) and Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI). She earned her MBA degree from Regis University in Denver, Colorado, and her Bachelor's degree from WMU in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

To stay current with the latest industry developments and explore new ideas, Cindy attends as many professional events and conferences as she can. She is active in her local chapter of the PMI and enjoys both sharing her knowledge with the project management community and helping others gain satisfaction in what they do.

Tim Johnson's first connection with Project began as a product support professional at Microsoft, starting with Project 3.0 for MS-DOS. Tim later worked on the Project user assistance team, where he brought his firsthand knowledge of customers' issues to new learning solutions for Project. Tim remains involved in the computer industry and continues to look for ways to help customers better understand and use their computer applications. Tim is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) and Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP).

Carl Chatfield is a content strategist and technical writer in the software development industry. Carl teaches in the Professional Technical Writing program at the University of Washington. He is a graduate of the masters program in Technical Communication at the University of Washington and is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute.

Contenu

Introduction

Part 1: Get started with Microsoft project

Chapter 1 Project, project management, and you

Practice files

Meet the Project program

Meet the Project family

See the new features in Project 2019

New features in earlier versions

New in Project 2016

New in Project 2013

New in Project 2010

Take a project manager's perspective

Let's get started!

Chapter 2 Take a guided tour

Practice files

Explore the Project user interface

Manage files and set options in the Backstage view

Work with schedule details in views

Use reports to check a plan's status

Skills review

Practice tasks

Explore the Project user interface

Manage files and set options in the Backstage view

Work with schedule details in views

Use reports to check a plan's status

Part 2: Simple scheduling basics

Chapter 3 Start a new plan

Practice files

Create a new plan and set its start date

Set nonworking days in the project calendar

Enter the plan title and other properties

Skills review

Create a new plan and set its start date

Set nonworking days in the project calendar

Enter the plan title and other properties

Chapter 4 Build a task list

Practice files

Create tasks

Switch task scheduling from manual to automatic

Enter task durations and estimates

Enter milestone tasks

Create summary tasks to outline the plan

Link tasks to create dependencies

Check a plan's duration and finish date

Document task information

Skills review

Create tasks

Switch task scheduling from manual to automatic

Enter task durations and estimates

Enter milestone tasks

Create summary tasks to outline the plan

Link tasks to create dependencies

Check a plan's duration and finish date

Document task information

Chapter 5 Set up resources

Practice files

Set up work resources

Enter the maximum capacity for work resources

Enter work resource pay rates

Adjust working time in a resource calendar

Set up cost resources

Document resources by using notes

Skills review

Set up work resources

Enter the maximum capacity for work resources

Enter work resource pay rates

Adjust working time in a resource calendar

Set up cost resources

Document resources by using notes

Chapter 6 Assign resources to tasks

Practice files

Assign work resources to tasks

Control work when adding or removing resource assignments

Assign cost resources to tasks

Check the plan after assigning resources

Skills review

Assign work resources to tasks

Control work when adding or removing resource assignments

Assign cost resources to tasks

Check the plan after assigning resources

Chapter 7 Format and share your plan

Practice files

Customize a Gantt chart view

Add tasks to a Timeline view

Customize reports

Copy views and reports

Print views and reports

Skills review

Customize a Gantt chart view

Add tasks to a Timeline view

Customize reports

Copy views and reports

Print views and reports

Chapter 8 Track progress: Basic techniques

Practice files

Understand progress tracking

Save a baseline of your plan

Track a plan as scheduled

Enter a task's completion percentage

Enter actual values for tasks

Skills review

Save a baseline of your plan

Track a plan as scheduled

Enter a task's completion percentage

Enter actual values for tasks

Part 3: Advanced scheduling techniques

Chapter 9 Fine-tune task scheduling

Practice files

See task relationships by using Task Path

Adjust task link relationships

Control task scheduling by using constraints

Interrupt work on a task

Adjust working time for individual tasks

Control task scheduling by using task types

See task schedule details by using the Task Inspector

Skills review

See task relationships by using Task Path

Adjust task link relationships

Control task scheduling by using constraints

Interrupt work on a task

Adjust working time for individual tasks

Control task scheduling by using task types

See task schedule details by using the Task Inspector

Chapter 10 Fine-tune task details

Practice files

Enter deadline dates

Enter fixed costs

Create a recurring task

View the plan's critical path

Schedule summary tasks manually

Skills review

Enter deadline dates

Enter fixed costs

Create a recurring task

View the plan's critical path

Schedule summary tasks manually

Chapter 11 Fine-tune resource and assignment details

Practice files

Change resource availability over multiple date ranges

Work with multiple resource pay rates

Change resource pay rates over different date ranges

Delay …