Dynamic Scheduling with Microsoft Office Project 2003: The Book...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 755 pages
• Published by: J. Ross Publishing December 31, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1932159452
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1932159455
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1.7 inches
• Weighs: 2.9 pounds

Book Description
Microsoft Office Project 2003 is a powerful software tool, and like all tools, it requires knowledge and skill to be used to its maximum potential. This fully revised new edition of Eric Uyttewaals best-selling book on Microsoft Project provides users with everything they will need to more easily and effectively manage projects to a successful conclusion. Dynamic Scheduling with Microsoft Office Project 2003: The Book By and For Professionals is not only written by a certified PMP and project management practitioner with over 17 years of experience using and teaching MS Project, but is also based on the cumulative experience of the authors clients, other instructors, and includes insights from numerous other professionals who have used MS Office Project successfully.

This unique guide, based on research from over 1,000 real-life schedules, gives a complete picture of how to use this software to achieve the best results. "A must read, reread, and use daily for all project managers" is what PMIs Project Management Journal had to say about the previous edition. This updated version is even better.

Key Features:
Fully aligned with the PMBOK 2004 edition
Teaches how to build easy-to-maintain dynamic schedules that will meet your continual requirements to forecast until project completion
Provides many helpful screen illustrations, diagrams, stories, cartoons, review questions, case studies, and hands-on exercises to help make the learning process easy for all user levels
Also available in a 2002 MS Project version that is fully aligned with the PMBOK 2000 edition - Dynamic Scheduling With Microsoft Project 2002
Web Added Value offers downloadable quick reference tables with toolbar and keyboard shortcuts, answers to sample exam questions, one hundred examples of certified schedules, filters to check the quality of your own schedule, solution files for the Project 2003 exercises and a solutions manual for college professors - available from the J. Ross Publishing Web Added Value™ Download Resource Center

About The Author
Eric Uyttewaal, PMP, is Vice President of Microsoft Project Certification at the International Institute for Learning, Inc., an internationally-recognized learning organization and leader in the field of project management. Eric is a best-selling author and a project management practitioner. Over the past 17 years, he has taught thousands of people on MS Project software. Eric was the first Canadian certified in MS Project by Microsoft and is certified as a PMP by PMI.

Reader Reviews
In a nutshell, this book will help show you how to use Microsoft Project 2003 (MS Project) to create dynamic, valid models of your projects so that you can forecast end dates and total costs. Model means that the schedule will be an intelligent simplification of the project, valid means that it reflects what is really going on, and dynamic means that when one change happens to the project, a minimal number of changes (ideally one) will need to happen in the schedule to return the schedule to a valid state. The author explains how to do all of this with MS Project In my mind, there are three important pillars on which this book is built: 1) It is aligned with the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) 2004, 2) It shows effective ways to use MS Project to keep the project files manageable so that you can keep the schedules dynamic and forecasts accurate, and 3) It has excellent practical advice on project management. Much as the Project Management Institute has developed the PMBOK to reflect the best practices in Project Management, the author has succeeded in developing a Body of Knowledge to reflect the best practices for using MS Project. This is one of the best hands on practical technical books I have read (and I have read many). If you use MS Project, you owe it to yourself to give this book a try. Comment | | (Report this)