Gestión de Proyectos con Microsoft Project 2013


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Como consecuencia del buen hacer, el contundente éxito, la aceptación y la experiencia de Microsoft Project 4, Project 98, Project 2000, Project 2002, Project 2003, Project 2007 y Project 2010, aparece ahora en el mercado Microsoft Project 2013, un producto maduro y con vocación de continuidad durante los próximos años. El nuevo paquete de aplicaciones Office 2013 incluye una gran variedad de tipos que van desde aquellas pensadas para un público general hasta los administradores de proyectos profesionales. Microsoft Project 2013 es el resultado de grandes esfuerzos de investigación y desarrollo para abarcar toda la diversidad de clientes con el fin de proporcionar una gran cantidad de características, una mayor potencia y mejoras adicionales. Esta aplicación constituye una poderosa herramienta de gestión de proyectos para plantear, planificar y representar gráficamente la información, así como para exponérselos a los demás. Así mismo, Project 2013 proporciona a los usuarios expertos la flexibilidad necesaria para planificar y realizar el seguimiento de los proyectos de forma conjunta y obtener así los resultados que su empresa requiere. Es la herramienta de planificación que toda organización necesita. Como novedades relevantes destaca la nueva integración para trabajar en la nube y poder compartir de forma sencilla información con las demás aplicaciones del paquete Office. Esto facilita no solo gestionar proyectos, sino también transmitir información de un modo claro, visual y atractivo. Este libro está diseñado tanto para los principiantes que se disponen a utilizar Microsoft Project 2013 por primera vez, como para los conocedores de las versiones anteriores que desean aprender las nuevas características que incluye. Pretende ser un manual rápido para el aprendizaje de esta herramienta; para ello se muestran, de forma esquemática y estructurada, los pasos a seguir para la gestión de un proyecto con Project 2013. Cada lección puede requerir aproximadamente 30 minutos, por lo que en unas 8 horas será capaz de moverse a través del programa con soltura. Luego, la práctica hará el resto. Al final del libro se incluyen preguntas de autoevaluación con sus soluciones, cuyo fin no es otro que el de posibilitar al lector la comprobación del grado de aprendizaje adquirido. ¡Esperamos que vea cumplidas sus expectativas!







Microsoft Project 2013: The Missing Manual


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Get up to speed on Microsoft Project 2013 and learn how to manage projects large and small. This crystal-clear book not only guides you step-by-step through Project 2013’s new features, it also gives you real-world guidance: how to prep a project before touching your PC, and which Project tools will keep you on target. With this Missing Manual, you’ll go from project manager to Project master. The important stuff you need to know Learn Project 2013 inside out. Get hands-on instructions for the Standard and Professional editions. Start with a project management primer. Discover what it takes to handle a project successfully. Build and refine your plan. Put together your team, schedule, and budget. Achieve the results you want. Build realistic schedules with Project, and learn how to keep costs under control. Track your progress. Measure your performance, make course corrections, and manage changes. Create attractive reports. Communicate clearly to stakeholders and team members using charts, tables, and dashboards. Use Project’s power tools. Customize Project’s features and views, and transfer info via the cloud, using Microsoft SkyDrive.




Project Management Absolute Beginner's Guide


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This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Succeed as a project manager, even if you’ve never run a project before! This book is the fastest way to master every project management task, from upfront budgeting and scheduling through execution, managing teams through closing projects, and learning from experience. Updated with more insights from the front lines, including agile approaches, dealing with security and privacy priorities, and leading remote/virtual teams, along with the latest on Microsoft Project and PMI standards and certifications and a special bonus chapter on preparing for the PMP certification. This book will show you exactly how to get the job done, one incredibly clear and easy step at a time. Project management has never, ever been this simple! Who knew how simple project management could be? This is today’s best beginner’s guide to modern project management... simple, practical instructions for succeeding with every task you’ll need to perform! Here’s a small sample of what you’ll learn: • Master the key skills and qualities every project manager needs • Lead projects, don’t just “manage” them • Avoid 15 most common mistakes new project managers make • Learn from troubled, successful, and “recovered” projects • Set the stage for success by effectively defining your project • Build a usable project plan and an accurate work breakdown structure (WBS) • Create budgets and schedules that help you manage risk • Use powerful control and reporting techniques, including earned value management • Smoothly manage project changes, issues, risks, deliverables, and quality • Manage project communications and stakeholder expectations • Organize and lead high-performance project teams • Manage cross-functional, cross-cultural, and virtual projects • Work successfully with vendors and Project Management Offices • Make the most of Microsoft Project and new web-based alternatives • Get started with agile and “critical chain” project management • Gain key insights that will accelerate your learning curve • Know how to respond to real-life situations, not just what they teach you in school




Project Management


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Projects continue to grow larger, increasingly strategic, and more complex, with greater collaboration, instant feedback, specialization, and an ever-expanding list of stakeholders. Now more than ever, effective project management is critical for the success of any deliverable, and the demand for qualified Project Managers has leapt into nearly all sectors. Project Management provides a robust grounding in essentials of the field using a managerial approach to both fundamental concepts and real-world practice. Designed for business students, this text follows the project life cycle from beginning to end to demonstrate what successful project management looks like on the ground. Expert discussion details specific techniques and applications, while guiding students through the diverse skill set required to select, initiate, execute, and evaluate today's projects. Insightful coverage of change management provides clear guidance on handling the organizational, interpersonal, economic, and technical glitches that can derail any project, while in-depth cases and real-world examples illustrate essential concepts in action.




Artificial Intelligence in Project Management and Making Decisions


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This book presents new developments and advances in the theory, applications, and design methods of computational intelligence, integrated in various areas of project management and BIM environments. The chapters of the book span different soft computing techniques, such as: linguistic data summarization, fuzzy systems, evolutionary algorithms, estimation distribution algorithms, computing with words, augmented reality, and hybrid intelligence systems. In addition, different applications of the neutrosophic theory are presented for the treatment of uncertainty and indeterminacy in decision-making processes. Several chapters of the book constitute systematic reviews, useful for future investigations in the following topics: linguistic summarization of data, augmented reality, and the development of BIM technologies. It is a particularly interesting book for engineers, researchers, specialists, teachers, and students related to project management and the development of BIM technologies.




Scrappy Project Management


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Project Management


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Winner of 2020 PMI David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award This book is a complete project management toolkit for project leaders in business, research and industry. Projects are approved and financed to generate benefits. Project Management: A Benefit Realisation Approach proposes a complete framework that supports this objective – from project selection and definition, through execution, and beyond implementation of deliverables until benefits are secured. The book is the first to explain the creation of organisational value by suggesting a complete, internally-consistent and theoretically rigorous benefit-focused project management methodology, supported with an analytical technique: benefit engineering. Benefit engineering offers a practical approach to the design and maintenance of an organisation’s project portfolio. Building upon the authors’ earlier successful book, Project Management for the Creation of Organisational Value, this comprehensively revised and expanded new book contains the addition of new chapters on project realisation. The book offers a rigorous explanation of how benefits emerge from a project. This approach is developed and strengthened — resulting in a completely client-oriented view of a project. Senior executives, practitioners, students and academics will find in this book a comprehensive guide to the conduct of projects, which includes robust models, a set of consistent principles, an integrated glossary, enabling tools, illustrative examples and case studies.




Microsoft Project 2013 Step by Step


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Experience learning made easy - and quickly teach yourself how to manage the complete project life cycle with Project 2013. With Step by Step, you set the pace - building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Work with Project 2013 on your PC or touch-enabled device Build and fine-tune your project plan Schedule tasks and milestones, and assign resources Track progress and costs, and manage variances Troubleshoot delays and budget overruns Customize Gantt chart views, tables, and calendars Learn project-management best practices




Project Management for Construction


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