Written by the Manager of Technical Writing at Microsoft, this book explains the fundamentals of project management and the full features of Microsoft Project '98.

Managing Projects with Microsoft® Project 98 For Windows™ Gwen Lowery and Rob Ferrara Get the Most out of Your Projects with the Most Successful Project Management Strategies and the World’s #1 Project Management Software. Now in a totally revised and updated edition of the bestselling classic written for first-time project leaders and experienced business professionals alike, Managing Projects With Microsoft Project 98 offers a masterful combination: a series of success-proven project management strategies in all phases of the process plus an insider’s guide to the most powerful and versatile project management software on the market today. …a world-class projects tutor and a think-of-everything assistant all in one! Microsoft Project 98 marks a quantum leap forward for this acclaimed software tool. Lowery and Ferrara’s remarkable guide goes stride for stride with the new program, incorporating coverage of dozens of new features and enhancements for: Creating and Tracking Projects — explore Microsoft Project 98’s new method of calculating task durations and schedules plus its new task scheduling, linking, and tracking features. Managing Resources and Costs Efficiently — the program offers a number of new ways to help you manage money and time, including Task Splitting, Resource Contouring, Multiple and Variable Resource Rates,Resource and Task Usage Views, User-Entered Actual Costs, and more. Enriching Plans Via the Internet — launch your project into cyberspace with the new Web Toolbar, plus options for publishing your plan on the Web and linking Web documents into the plan. Sharing Project Information—put the program’s easier-than-ever importing and exporting, workgroup set-up, and Intranet support features to work. Working Faster and Smarter — new data entry features, auto filters, view displays, graphics inserts, and "Indicator" icon prompts, plus new printing options, make the job go quicker and smoother. Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 98 features a complete new chapter on established electronically-linked workgroups on and off the Web.

Learn proven project management strategies as you master the world's #1 project management software Here's a winning combination: a series of successful project management strategies that cover every phase of the process AND an insider's guide to the most powerful and versatile project management software available anywhere. That's what you'll find in Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2000. A synchronized learning system helps you get with the program Microsoft Project 2000 brings 21st-century power to this already formidable tool. Whether you're an experienced user preparing to upgrade to Microsoft Project 2000 or an aspiring project manager who needs to understand the big picture as you gain control of the details, this remarkable one-stop guide helps you make the most of this outstanding new program. It puts you in control of every new feature and enhanced capability, including how to: SCHEDULE TASKS AND TRACK PROGRESS using task calendars, deadline dates, estimated durations, baseline and interim plans, and more MANAGE RESOURCES FOR BETTER TASK SCHEDULING with new methods that let you vary resource availability, specify material resources, and set task priorities for resource leveling MODEL PROJECTS GRAPHICALLY WITH NETWORK DIAGRAM VIEW, which offers flexible viewing and formatting of program information in a graphical layout of tasks MANAGE TASKS AND RESOURCES ACROSS A WORKGROUP with Microsoft Project Central-a Web-based companion to Microsoft Project 2000 that allows for task delegation up and down organizational lines, task progress reporting, and narrative status reporting WORK FASTER AND SMARTER by jump-starting new products with templates, grouping tasks and resources, creating your own work breakdown structure numbering scheme-and much, much more

Exploit the power of Microsoft Project 98 to cut costs, get more done with fewer team members, and build a track record of timeliness and reliability. From resource-driven scheduling to chart formatting--no matter what you want out of Microsoft Project, this book will help you get it done.

Timed for release with the latest version of the software, this is the most up-to-date and advanced edition of Lowery's highly popular book. She explains the concepts of project management from the ground up, and takes the reader step by step through the features and applications of Microsoft Project 4.0.

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

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.

Annotation. This guide can be used as a stand alone or asthe participants booklet with the title Project Management for Workgroups. It is organized around 20 key project manager actions and results with the majority devoted to providing new project managers with the tools to get quality results.

Including coverage of new scheduling features, this book is the fastest way to learn Microsoft Project 98 quickly and get up to speed on the critical features users need to update and maintain projects. Readers will learn about Resource Contouring, Task Splitting, Cost Rate Tables, and Office 97 integration.