Microsoft Project 2016 Step by Step


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The quick way to learn Microsoft Project 2016! This is learning made easy. Get more done quickly with Project 2016. Jump in wherever you need answers–brisk lessons and colorful screenshots show you exactly what to do, step by step. Quickly start a new plan, build task lists, and assign resources Share your plan and track your progress Capture and fine-tune work and cost details Use Gantt charts and other views and reports to visualize project schedules Share resources across multiple plans and consolidate projects Master project management best practices while you learn Project Look up just the tasks and lessons you need




Project 2016 For Dummies


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The easy way to take control of project timelines, resources, budgets, and details Project manager, meet your new assistant! Once you discover Project 2016 you'll be amazed at how efficient and effective the project management process can be. Written by an expert author who knows project management processes backward and forward, this friendly, hands-on guide shows you how to get started, enter tasks and estimate durations, work with resources and costs, fine-tune your schedule, set baselines, collect data, analyze progress, and keep your projects on track. How many times have you heard people in the office mutter under their breath, 'These projects never run on time?' Well, now they can! Project 2016 For Dummies shows you how to use the latest version of Microsoft Project to create realistic project timelines, make the most of available resources, keep on top of all those pesky details, and, finally, complete your project on time and on budget. Easy! Fully updated to reflect the latest software changes in Microsoft Project 2016 All-new case studies and examples highlight the relevance of key features of Microsoft Project 2016 Exposes the correlation between what project managers do and how Microsoft Project 2016 supports their work Covers working with calendars, using and sharing resources, budgeting, gathering and tracking data, and more If you're a time-pressured project manager looking to make your life—and your projects—easier, Project 2016 For Dummies shows you how to get things done!




Microsoft Project 2016 Training Manual Classroom in a Book


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Complete classroom training manuals for Microsoft Project 2016. Two manuals (Introductory and Advanced) in one book. 185 pages and 101 individual topics. Includes practice exercises and keyboard shortcuts. You will learn introductory through advanced concepts including assigning and managing tasks and resources, tracking project tasks, developing dynamic reports and much more. Topics Covered: Getting Acquainted with Project 1. About Project 2. Starting Project 3. Project Management Terms and Concepts 4. The Project Environment 5. The Title Bar 6. The Ribbon 7. The “File” Tab and Backstage View 8. The Scroll Bars 9. The Quick Access Toolbar 10. The Entry Bar 11. The Status Bar 12. Touch Mode Project Basics 1. Opening Projects 2. Closing Projects 3. Creating New Projects 4. Saving Projects 5. Changing Project Views 6. Planning a Project Tasks 1.Creating Tasks 2. Editing and Deleting Tasks 3. Setting Task Duration 4. Linking Tasks 5. Marking Milestones 6. Using Phases and Summary Tasks 7. Using Task Notes Resources 1. Project Resources Overview 2. Creating Work Resources 3. Creating Material Resources 4. Creating Cost Resources 5. Entering Costs for Project Resources 6. Scheduling Work Resources 7. Creating New Base Calendars Resource and Task Assignment 1. Assigning Work Resources to Tasks 2. Assigning Material Resources to Tasks 3. Assigning Cost Resources to Tasks 4. The Team Planner Tracking Project Tasks 1. Creating Project Baselines 2. Updating Multiple Tasks in a Project 3. Updating Tasks Individually 4. Rescheduling Uncompleted Work Formatting Gantt Chart Views 1. Formatting Text in a Gantt Chart 2. Formatting Gridlines in a Gantt Chart 3. Formatting the Task Bar Layout in a Gantt Chart 4. Formatting Columns in Gantt Charts 5. Applying Bar and Gantt Chart Styles 6. Drawing Objects 7. Formatting Timescale in Gantt Charts 8. Creating Custom Views Other Project Views 1. Using Timeline View 2. Creating Multiple Timelines 3. The Task Usage View 4. The Network Diagram View 5. The Calendar View 6. Printing Views Advanced Task Management 1. Setting Task Lead and Lag Time 2. Using Task Constraints 3. Task Types 4. Setting Deadlines 5. Interrupting Tasks 6. Moving and Rescheduling Tasks 7. Inspecting Tasks 8. Creating Recurring Tasks 9. Entering Fixed Costs 10. Critical Paths 11. Using WBS Codes Advanced Resource Management 1. Applying Multiple Resource Rates 2. Advanced Resource Availability 3. Using Work Contours 4. Material Resource Consumption Rates 5. Delaying Resource Assignments Advanced Project Tracking 1. Monitoring Resource Allocation 2. Leveling Overallocated Resources 3. Monitoring Project Costs 4. Monitoring Project Statistics Advanced Project Tools 1. Using the Organizer 2. Making Macros 3. Customizing the Ribbon 4. Creating and Linking Resource Pools 5. Using and Updating Resource Pools 6. Consolidating and Linking Multiple Projects Reporting 1. Using Earned Value Analysis 2. Creating Basic Reports 3. Selecting Report Objects 4. Changing the Report View 5. Basic Report Formatting 6. Inserting Report Objects 7. Managing Reports 8. Basic Page Setup for Reports 9. Advanced Page Setup for Reports 10. Printing Reports Modifying Report Objects 1. Selecting, Moving and Resizing Report Charts 2. Using the Field List with Report Charts 3. Designing Report Charts 4. Formatting Report Charts 5. Using Report Tables 6. Designing Report Tables 7. Setting Report Table Layout Options 8. Modifying Pictures, Text Boxes and Shapes 9. Formatting Text Boxes and Shapes 10. Formatting Report Pictures Visual Reporting 1. Using Visual Reports




Microsoft Project 2016


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After the successful publication of my book about the basics of Microsoft Project 2016 in Germany (ranked among the top 50 of specialist books about project management), the English version is now available. This manual contains a description of the key functions of MS Project 2016 on 110 pages. The document is particularly suitable for self-study and also as training material for training providers and trainers. It describes all necessary steps of project scheduling with MS Project in detail and supports them with meaningful screenshots. The content: Overview of program structure | setting up a new project | task scheduling, manual scheduling/automatic scheduling | tables | resource scheduling, team planner, resource leveling | cost management, cost types, budget tracking | project controlling, baseline, target/actual-comparison | project continuation | custom fields (including formulas and traffic light functions) | multi-project management, subprojects, resource pool, project portfolio | reports and visual evaluations | creation of a project with an overview of all MS Project fields, earned value analysis | shortcuts etc.




Project 2016


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The Microsoft Official Academic Course (MOAC) textbook for Project 2016 is designed to help develop and reinforce common workforce skills within today's competitive job markets. With this textbook students learn to establish and navigate through project resources like establishing and adjusting resource pay rates and working times. Task assignments include assigning work resources and assignments to tasks; allowing certain actions to tag and change Project's scheduling behaviors. Scheduling refinements and formatting allows students to understand the different task types and the effects of the work formulas. Students will be able to understand how to utilize the task information dialog box to change a task type. This edition also covers project reporting, integrating Microsoft Project with other programs, and managing multiple projects at once. Skills mastery of Project 2016 can help students with casework and differentiate job hunters in today's competitive job market.




Practical Project Management with Microsoft Project


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Practical Project Management with Microsoft Project guides you through Project's features step by step. You can jump directly to the topics you need.Or download sample files from the book's website to follow along.




Microsoft Project 2016


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Microsoft Project 2016 is a Microsoft based project management software that is used to assist project managers in carrying out their duties. It allows them to develop plans, allocating the resources to project tasks, progress tracking, budget management and reviewing your workloads. Some years after its introduction it become the leading project management software. It is a part of the Microsoft Office family but has never been included in the Office suite. It is available separately in to editions, the standard and the professional using a file format of .mpp. Project 2016 can be used to create budgets based on assignment work and resource rates. As the resources are assigned and the work is estimated, the software can calculate the costs and estimated completion time. Resources can also be tracked and shared between different projects quite easily.




Dear Data


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Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life," in the words of Maria Popova (Brain Pickings), who introduces this charming and graphically powerful book. For one year, Giorgia Lupi, an Italian living in New York, and Stefanie Posavec, an American in London, mapped the particulars of their daily lives as a series of hand-drawn postcards they exchanged via mail weekly—small portraits as full of emotion as they are data, both mundane and magical. Dear Data reproduces in pinpoint detail the full year's set of cards, front and back, providing a remarkable portrait of two artists connected by their attention to the details of their lives—including complaints, distractions, phone addictions, physical contact, and desires. These details illuminate the lives of two remarkable young women and also inspire us to map our own lives, including specific suggestions on what data to draw and how. A captivating and unique book for designers, artists, correspondents, friends, and lovers everywhere.




Long Past Slavery


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From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. These narratives are now widely used as a source to understand the lived experience of those who made the transition from slavery to freedom. But in this examination of the project and its legacy, Catherine A. Stewart shows it was the product of competing visions of the past, as ex-slaves' memories of bondage, emancipation, and life as freedpeople were used to craft arguments for and against full inclusion of African Americans in society. Stewart demonstrates how project administrators, such as the folklorist John Lomax; white and black interviewers, including Zora Neale Hurston; and the ex-slaves themselves fought to shape understandings of black identity. She reveals that some influential project employees were also members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, intent on memorializing the Old South. Stewart places ex-slaves at the center of debates over black citizenship to illuminate African Americans' struggle to redefine their past as well as their future in the face of formidable opposition. By shedding new light on a critically important episode in the history of race, remembrance, and the legacy of slavery in the United States, Stewart compels readers to rethink a prominent archive used to construct that history.




Software Project Management for Distributed Computing


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This unique volume explores cutting-edge management approaches to developing complex software that is efficient, scalable, sustainable, and suitable for distributed environments. Practical insights are offered by an international selection of pre-eminent authorities, including case studies, best practices, and balanced corporate analyses. Emphasis is placed on the use of the latest software technologies and frameworks for life-cycle methods, including the design, implementation and testing stages of software development. Topics and features: · Reviews approaches for reusability, cost and time estimation, and for functional size measurement of distributed software applications · Discusses the core characteristics of a large-scale defense system, and the design of software project management (SPM) as a service · Introduces the 3PR framework, research on crowdsourcing software development, and an innovative approach to modeling large-scale multi-agent software systems · Examines a system architecture for ambient assisted living, and an approach to cloud migration and management assessment · Describes a software error proneness mechanism, a novel Scrum process for use in the defense domain, and an ontology annotation for SPM in distributed environments · Investigates the benefits of agile project management for higher education institutions, and SPM that combines software and data engineering This important text/reference is essential reading for project managers and software engineers involved in developing software for distributed computing environments. Students and researchers interested in SPM technologies and frameworks will also find the work to be an invaluable resource. Prof. Zaigham Mahmood is a Senior Technology Consultant at Debesis Education UK and an Associate Lecturer (Research) at the University of Derby, UK. He also holds positions as Foreign Professor at NUST and IIU in Islamabad, Pakistan, and Professor Extraordinaire at the North West University Potchefstroom, South Africa.