Product Description

"Microsoft Project 2007" helps users control the variables on any project, big or small - such as schedules, budgets, communications, and changes - rather than be controlled by them. Written by project management expert Bonnie Biafore, this book teaches readers how to do everything from setting, tracking, and adjusting schedules and budgets to testing scenarios and recognizing trouble spots before your project breaks down. Schedules, budgets, communications, resources. Projects big and small include them all, and "Microsoft Project 2007" can help you control these variables - not be controlled by them. But Project is complex software, and learning it is, well, a project in itself. Get up to speed fast with "Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual".Written by project management expert Bonnie Biafore, this book teaches you how to do everything from setting budgets and tracking schedules to testing scenarios and recognizing trouble spots before your project breaks down. Find out what's new in Project 2007 from previous versions, and get help choosing the right edition, whether it's Project Standard, Project Professional, or Enterprise Project Management Solution. With "Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual", you get more than a simple software how-to.You also get a rundown on project management basics and plenty of solid advice on how to use Project to: define your project and plan your approach; estimate your project, set up a budget, define tasks, and break the work into manageable chunks; create a schedule, define the sequence of work, and learn the right way to use date constraints and deadlines; build a project team and assign resources to tasks: "who does what"; refine the project to satisfy objectives by building reality into the schedule, and learn to keep project costs under control; track progress and communicate with team members via reports, information sharing, and meetings that work; and, close out your project and take away valuable lessons for the future. "Microsoft Project 2007" is the flagship of all project management programs, and this Missing Manual is the book that should have been in the box. No project manager should be without it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #205281 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 702 pages

About the Author
Bonnie Biafore is an award-winning author of several books on investing, finance, project management, and software. She's a columnist for Better Investing magazine and the author of "QuickBooks 2006: The Missing Manual", "Quicken 2006 for Starters: The Missing Manual", and "Online Investing Hacks" (all O'Reilly). A PMI-certified project management professional with more than 20 years experience, she also manages information technology and software development projects in a variety of industries.

Customer Reviews

Microsoft Project 2007 The Missing Manual
Microsoft Project 2007 The Missing Manual is a good step by step guide to Project Management, useful for anyone involved with managing projects and also for those who are new to the project environment and require a practical guide, this book also covers key elements such as change management, issues and risks. A very easy to understand and a worthwhile read with the additional benefit of learning how to use MS Project 2007 to its full capability for planning your project from start to finish.

MS Project '07
Very good book that brings together MS Project and project management in a seamless flow of information. I Recommend it.