Planning and Control Using Microsoft® Office Project and Pmbok® Guide

Book excerpt: This book is principally a Microsoft Project book aimed at Project Management Professionals who understand the PMBOK® Guide Fourth Edition processes and wish to learn how to use Microsoft Office Project to plan and control their projects in a PMBOK® Guide environment, and discover how to gain the most from the software.This book is may be used for learning Microsoft Project in an environment utilizing the PMBOK® Guide processes and may be used as a self teach book, or a user guide, or for a two-day training course.A Microsoft Project user guide and training manual written for Project Management Professionals following the PMBOK® Guide Fourth Edition who wish to learn how to schedule projects in a single project environment with or without Resources with Microsoft Project. The book is packed with screen shots, constructive tips and is suitable as a training course handout, for learning the software or as a reference book. The book contains workshops with solutions at the end of each chapter for the reader to practice the skills taught in the chapter. The book is based on the Microsoft Project 2007 but may be used with Microsoft Project 2000, 2002 or 2003 as the book points out the differences.