Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual

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

Customer Reviews:

Great content, poor printing quality

By Colin O'Flynn - January 3, 2012

Content is great - contains much more than just how to use Project 2010, but how to manage projects in general. This also includes example spreadsheets, templates, etc.

Was very let down by quality of printing though. Book is Printed On Demand (POD), and is very easily recognizable as that. Blacks vary between pages, resolution not high enough for font used with fine strokes becoming messy. Already had the e-book and decided I wanted the real thing, but honestly in this instance I would have been happy sticking with the e-book.

Learn Microsoft Project TO-DAY!!!

By Dan McKinnon - July 22, 2010

Another gem in the Missing Manual line of books. This book makes learning Microsoft Project 2010 easy breezy and fun to boot! Spanned over 700+ pages and 27 chapters of smoooooth writing and easy to follow examples, the author does a grandiose job of turning newbie users into experienced ones in no time at all. From the basics of Project to setting up schedules to assigning tasks to making changes to tracking progress to getting your schedule on the web, this is an all in one solution.

If you need to learn Microsoft Project, look no further. The Missing Manual line is known for its high quality products, and this one fits the bill. My only caveat is that I wish there was some color in the book to spice things up, but it's not essential.

Buy It.

Now.

***** RECOMMENDED

Lengthy Reference

By Mark Bassett "Mark" - February 27, 2012

This book is 745 pages of reference, broken to 6 sections described as:

Part One: Project Management - like a mini-manual on Project Management basics, explaining what projects are, why managing them is a good idea, how to pick projects and obtain support, and quick tour of planning a project.

Part Two: Project Planning, More than Creating a Schedule - starts with a quick test drive of MSProject, then goes thru aspecs of planning including breaking work down, estimating work and duration, assigning resources to tasks and setting up a budget, then how to refine a schedule and prepare it for the execution phase of the project.

Part Three: Projects in Action - explain how to track progres, evaluate that progress, correct course and manage changes, generate reports and steps at the end of the project.

Part Four: Project Power Tools - talk about how to work on more than one project and how to share data with other (Microsoft) programs and... read more