Essential Microsoft Project

Finally, a no-nonsense guide to mastering Microsoft Project for busy professionals! Are you a non-project manager suddenly thrown into leading a critical project? A new project manager looking to turn theory into practice? Or an experienced PM needing to quickly get up to speed on Microsoft Project?
This concise, focused book cuts through the clutter to teach you only the 20% of Microsoft Project functionalitythat you'll use 80% of the time. Follow along step-by-step as an experienced project leader shows you how to create a realistic, workable project plan in less than a day using Microsoft Project. You'll learn how to set up your calendar, build a work breakdown structure, properly sequence tasks, assign resources, determine the critical path, and more.
But this book goes beyond just the software basics. The final section dives into 20 common real-world scheduling challenges and how to troubleshoot them, like what to do when a project finishes too late (or too early), team members have conflicts, you have hundreds of tasks to summarize, and more. Complete with a glossary of terms and links to downloadable sample project plans.