Microsoft Office Project 2003 Inside Out
About the CD
- Sidebars
Chapter 2: Understanding Project Projects and Management
- Project Management Practices: Balancing and Integrating Competing Demands
- Project Management Processes
- Project Management Terminology
Chapter 3: Starting a New Project
- Use the Define The Project Wizard
- Calendars in Microsoft Project
- Project Management Practices: Activity Definition
- Tips for Entering Tasks
Chapter 4: Viewing Project Information
- Learn More About Microsoft Project Fields
- Built-in Task Groups
- Built-in Resource Groups
- Built-in Task Filters
- Built-in Resource Filters
- Learn More about Microsoft Project Views, Tables, Filters, and Groups
Chapter 5: Scheduling Tasks
- Project Management Practices: Building in a Buffer
- Project Management Practices: Real vs. Preferred Task Dependencies
- Project Management Practices: Working with Date Constraints
- Getting Scheduling Feedback
Chapter 6: Setting Up Resources in the Project
- How Many Resources Do You Need?
- Project Management Practices: Staffing Management
- Estimate Resource Requirements Using Generic Resources
- Add Resources Using the Project Guide
- Allow for Non-Project Work
- Identify Resource Skill Sets
- Adding Initials of Assigned Resources to the Gantt Bar
Chapter 7: Assigning Resources to Tasks
- Project Management Practices: Assigning the Right Resources to Tasks
- Filtering for Resources
- Defining a Resource Skill Set
- Review Availability Graphs for Multiple Resources
- Translate Duration to Work Amounts
Chapter 8: Planning Resource and Task Costs
- Project Management Practices: Procurement Management
- Update the exchange rate
Chapter 9: Checking and Adjusting the Project Plan
- Sources of your project scope, finish date, and budget
- Critical Path Method (CPM)
- Working with Multiple Critical Paths
- What if you have more time than needed for the project?
- Project Management Practices: Duration Compression
- Project Management Practices: The Right Resources for Critical Tasks
- What if you have more money than you need?
- Strategies for Reducing Resource Costs
- What If You Have More Resources Than You Need for the Project?
- Regular work, overtime work, and total work
Chapter 10: Saving a Baseline and Updating Progress
- Are You a Charter or a Tracker?
- Protecting Baseline Information
- Project Management Practices: Working with the Baseline
- Project Management Practices: Scope and Quality Verification
- Turn Automatic Calculation On or Off
- Tailoring Project Web Access Timesheet Fields
- Using the Tracking Toolbar
- Design a Custom Tracking View
- Updating Progress Around the Status Date
- Automate Tracking with Project Web Access
- Protecting Actuals Information
Chapter 11: Responding to Changes in Your Project
- Baseline, Scheduled, and Actual Project Information
- Project Management Practices: Schedule Control
- Review Status Indicators
- Create a What-If Project
- Project Management Practices: Cost Control
- Need a New Baseline?
Chapter 12: Reporting Project Information
- Project Management Practices: Communications Management
- Page Setup Options
- Interpret the Earned Value Figures
- Reports That Identify Problems
- More Built-in Reports
Chapter 13: Analyzing Project Information
- Make Earned Value Tables and Views More Accessible
- Your Earned Value Fields Are All $0.00
- Change the Data Type in an Excel Column
Chapter 14: Managing Master Projects and Resource Pools
- Work with subproject - related fields
- What's the difference between a consolidated project and a master project?
- Opening Multiple Project Files as a Set
- The Enterprise Resource Pool
Chapter 15: Exchanging Information Between Project Plans
- Linking Projects
Chapter 16: Exchanging Information with Other Applications
- Creating Server interfaces with Other Applications
- Using Microsoft Visio with Microsoft Project
- Set up a document library
- Using Web Parts to Create a Project Information Web Page
Chapter 17: Integrating Microsoft Project with Microsoft Excel
- Match the Columns
- Match the Data Types
Chapter 18: Integrating Microsoft Project with Microsoft Outlook
- Send a Project File to Predefined Recipients
Chapter 19: Collaborating Using E-Mail
- Entering E-Mail Addresses Automatically
- Exchanging Project Information Using E-Mail
Chapter 21: Administering Project Server and Project Web Access for Your Enterprise
- Carry out administrative duties
- Category permissions
- Global permissions
- Protect project baselines
- Create an enterprise global change process
- Create an interface for enterprise data
- Protecting actuals information
- Tailor Project Web Access for users
Chapter 22: Managing Enterprise Projects and Resources
- The enterprise versus non-enterprise resource pool
- Review a resource's availability graphs
- Managing the Timesheet periods
- The Collaborate toolbar
- Protecting Actuals
Chapter 23: Participating On a Team Using Project Web Access
- Create a to-do list
- Protecting actuals
- Review a resource's availability graphs
Chapter 24: Making Executive Decisions Using Project Web Access
- Create a Status Report
Chapter 25: Customizing Your View of Project Information
- Use the Gantt Chart Wizard
- Change the Format of a View
- Share formulas with other projects
- Group Tasks with Overallocated Resources
- Create a Filter for Resource Booking Type
- Specify multiple properties for a single resource
Chapter 26: Customizing the Microsoft Project Interface
- Working with Personalized Toolbars
- Quickly Customize Toolbars
- Creating Keyboard Shortcuts
Chapter 27: Automating Your Work with Macros
- Where the Macros Are: In the Project or the Global
- Absolute Column References Can Be Tricky
- Add the Visual Basic Toolbar
Chapter 28: Standardizing ProjectsUsing Templates
- Built-In Templates
- Create a New Project from an Existing One
- Copy Templates that Others Have Created
- Project Management Practices: Administrative Closure
Chapter 29: Managing Project Files
- Open options
- Add project summary information
- Save options
- What's in a filename?
Chapter 30: Understanding the Visual Basic Language
- Installing VBA Help
- Parents and Children: The Object Model Hierarchy
- Calling Methods That Return Values
- Inside Out
Chapter 31: Writing Microsoft Project Code with Visual Basic for Applications
- Finding the Right Help
- Finding the Default Member of a Class
- Three Birds, One Stone
Chapter 32: Working with Microsoft Project Data
- Microsoft Access yes/no values
- How the Project database stores values
Appendix A: Installing Microsoft Office Project 2003
- Advanced Resources for Microsoft Project
Appendix B: Field Reference
- Custom Fields in the MSP_PROJECTS Database