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Index
Cover
Table of Contents
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Part 1: Getting Started with Project 2019
Chapter 1: Project Management, Project 2019, and You
Introducing Project Management
Getting to Know You
Tell Me What You Want to Do
Chapter 2: Starting the Project
Creating the Project Charter
Introducing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Organizing the Work
Starting the Project
Saving the Project
Chapter 3: Becoming a Task Master
Creating Summary Tasks and Subtasks
Moving Tasks Up, Down, and All Around
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Collapsing and Expanding the Task Outline
Showing Up Again and Again: Recurring Tasks
Setting Milestones
Deleting Tasks and Using Inactive Tasks
Making a Task Note
Chapter 4: The Codependent Nature of Tasks
How Tasks Become Dependent
Setting the Dependency Connection
Chapter 5: Estimating Task Time
You’re in It for the Duration
Estimating Effort and Duration
Controlling Timing with Constraints
Starting and Pausing Tasks
Chapter 6: Check Out This View!
A Project with a View
More Detail about Views
Customizing Views
Part 2: Managing Resources
Chapter 7: Creating Resources
Resources: People, Places, and Things
Becoming Resource-Full
The Birth of a Resource
Managing Resource Availability
Sharing Resources
Chapter 8: Working with Calendars
Mastering Base, Project, Resource, and Task Calendars
Scheduling with Calendar Options and Working Times
Working with Task Calendars and Resource Calendars
Creating a Custom Calendar Template
Sharing Copies of Calendars
Chapter 9: Assigning Resources
Finding the Right Resource
Making a Useful Assignation
Benefitting from a Helpful Planner
Chapter 10: Determining a Project’s Cost
How Do Costs Accrue?
Specifying Cost Information in the Project
How Your Settings Affect Your Costs
Part 3: Before You Baseline
Chapter 11: Fine-Tuning Your Plan
Everything Filters to the Bottom Line
Gathering Information in Groups
Figuring Out What’s Driving the Project
Chapter 12: Negotiating Project Constraints
It’s about Time
Getting What You Want for Less
The Resource Recourse
Rescheduling the Project
Chapter 13: Making the Project Look Good
Looking Good!
Formatting the Gantt Chart
Formatting Task Boxes
Adjusting the Layout
Modifying Gridlines
Recognizing When a Picture Can Say It All
Creating a Custom Text Field
Chapter 14: It All Begins with a Baseline
All about Baselines
In the Interim
Part 4: Staying on Track
Chapter 15: On the Right Track
Developing a Communications Management Plan
Tracking Work for the Record
Moving a Task
Update Project: Sweeping Changes
Tracking Materials
Tracking More Than One: Consolidated Projects
Chapter 16: Project Views: Observing Progress
Seeing Where Tasks Stand
Delving into the Detail
Tracking Progress Using Earned Value Management
Calculating Behind the Scenes
Chapter 17: You’re Behind — Now What?
Using Project with Risk and Issue Logs
What-If Scenarios
How Adding People or Time Affects the Project
When All Else Fails
Chapter 18: Spreading the News: Reporting
Generating Standard Reports
Creating New Reports
Fine-Tuning a Report
Spiffing Things Up
Call the Printer!
Working on the Timeline
Chapter 19: Getting Better All the Time
Reviewing the Project
Comparing Versions of a Project
Building on Success
Part 5: The Part of Tens
Chapter 20: Ten Golden Rules of Project Management
Roll with It
Put Your Ducks in a Row
Expect the Unexpected
Don’t Put Off until Tomorrow …
Delegate, Delegate, Delegate
Document It
Keep the Team in the Loop
Measure Success
Maintain a Flexible Strategy
Learn from Your Mistakes
Chapter 21: Ten Cool Shortcuts in Project 2019
Task Information
Resource Information
Frequently Used Functions
Subtasks
Quick Selections
Fill Down
Navigation
Hours to Years
Timeline Shortcuts
Quick Undo and Repeat
Appendix: Glossary
Index
About the Author
Connect with Dummies
End User License Agreement
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