Microsoft Project 2010

Microsoft Project is brimming with features to help you manage any project, large or small. But learning the software is only half the battle. What you really need is real-world guidance: how to prep your project before touching your PC, which Project tools work best, and which ones to use with care. This book explains it all, helping you go from project manager to project master.

• Get a project management primer. Discover what it takes to handle a project successfully
• Learn the program inside out. Get step-by-step instructions for Project Standard and Project Professional
• Build and refine your plan. Put together your team, schedule, and budget
• Achieve the results you want. Build realistic schedules, and learn how to keep costs under control
• Track your progress. Measure your performance, make course corrections, and manage changes
• Use Project's power tools. Customize Project's features and views, and transfer info directly between Project and other programs

About the Author

Bonnie Biafore has always been a zealous planner, whether setting up software demos, cooking gourmet meals, or scheduling a vacation to test the waters of spontaneity. Ironically, fate, not planning, turned this obsession into a career as a project manager. When she isn't managing projects for clients, Bonnie writes about project management, small business accounting, personal finance, investing, and technology. She's also branching out into other ""dry"" topics with articles for the Wine Enthusiast. As an engineer, she's fascinated by how things work and how to make things work better. She has a knack for mincing dry subjects like accounting and project management into easy to understand morsels and then spices them to perfection with her warped sense of humor. Bonnie is the award-wining author of more than a dozen books including Quicken 2009: The Missing Manual, QuickBooks 2009: The Missing Manual, Project 2007: The Missing Manual, the Better Investing Stock Selection Handbook (which won an APEX Award of Distinction), Online Investing Hacks, and On Time! On Track! On Target!. She also writes regularly about financial topics for Better Investing bankrate.com and interest.com. When unshackled from her computer, she hikes in the mountains, cycles, rehabilitates horses, cooks gourmet food, and, most importantly, tries saying no to additional work assignments."

Bonnie Biafore is an award-wining author of more than a dozen books, including Missing Manuals on Quicken 2009, QuickBooks 2009, and Project 2007, as well as The Better Investing Stock Selection Handbook, Online Investing Hacks, and On Time! On Track! On Target!. She also writes regularly about financial topics for Better Investing bankrate.com and interest.com. As an engineer, she's fascinated by how things work and how to make things work better, and has a knack for mincing dry subjects like accounting and project management into easy-to-understand morsels and spicing them up with her warped sense of humor.

Schedules, budgets, communications, resources - projects big and small include them all, and Microsoft Project 2010 can help you control these variables and 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 2010: 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 2010 and get help choosing the edition that's right for you, whether it's 'Project Standard', 'Project Professional', or 'Enterprise Project Management Solution'. With Microsoft Project 2010: 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.

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