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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!
- ISBN-101119224519
- ISBN-13978-1119224518
- Edition1st
- PublisherFor Dummies
- Publication dateMarch 21 2016
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions18.54 x 2.03 x 23.37 cm
- Print length368 pages
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From the Inside Flap
Learn to:
- Manage costs and resources as you build a schedule from the ground up
- Set up your schedule to meet deadlines and stay on budget
- Keep all the members of the project team updated and informed
- Apply the project management tricks the professionals live by
Take control of your projects with the project manager's top assistant, Microsoft Project 2016
Whether you're managing your first project or juggling several large and complex projects, Project 2016 is like an assistant that works 24/7. This guide walks you through the basic functions of the software, helping you use it to create realistic timelines, maximize resources, budget, collect and track data, and successfully complete your project.
- See how it works tour the software interface, see how Project 2016 supports your efforts, and build a project schedule
- Manage your resources create and assign work resources, material resources, and fixed costs to tasks, and see how resources affect long-term costs
- Explore your toolbox discover tools to help you modify resource assignments and task timing to trim costs and meet deadlines
- Stay the course discover ways to track actual activity against your plan and pull things back on track when the unforeseen happens
Open the book and find:
- Useful examples on how to make projects work better
- How to determine different task types
- Help assigning resources to tasks
- Things to consider when factoring in contingency reserve
- When, why, and how to save a baseline
- What to do when the project falls behind
- Ten cool shortcuts in Project 2016
From the Back Cover
Learn to:
- Manage costs and resources as you build a schedule from the ground up
- Set up your schedule to meet deadlines and stay on budget
- Keep all the members of the project team updated and informed
- Apply the project management tricks the professionals live by
Take control of your projects with the project manager's top assistant, Microsoft Project 2016
Whether you're managing your first project or juggling several large and complex projects, Project 2016 is like an assistant that works 24/7. This guide walks you through the basic functions of the software, helping you use it to create realistic timelines, maximize resources, budget, collect and track data, and successfully complete your project.
- See how it works tour the software interface, see how Project 2016 supports your efforts, and build a project schedule
- Manage your resources create and assign work resources, material resources, and fixed costs to tasks, and see how resources affect long-term costs
- Explore your toolbox discover tools to help you modify resource assignments and task timing to trim costs and meet deadlines
- Stay the course discover ways to track actual activity against your plan and pull things back on track when the unforeseen happens
Open the book and find:
- Useful examples on how to make projects work better
- How to determine different task types
- Help assigning resources to tasks
- Things to consider when factoring in contingency reserve
- When, why, and how to save a baseline
- What to do when the project falls behind
- Ten cool shortcuts in Project 2016
About the Author
Cynthia Snyder is a well-known speaker, consultant, and trainer on project management, as well as the project manager of the team that updated PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge, Sixth Edition. Her other books include PMP Certification All-in-One For Dummies and A User's Manual to the PMBOK.
Product details
- Publisher : For Dummies; 1st edition (March 21 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1119224519
- ISBN-13 : 978-1119224518
- Item weight : 476 g
- Dimensions : 18.54 x 2.03 x 23.37 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #379,824 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #278 in Software Introductory Guides
- #58,865 in Textbooks
- Customer Reviews:
About the author

Even though I was a writing major in college, I sort of tripped into writing as a career path. I started as a technical editor for a few books, and then got an offer to write one myself. From there I have been fortunate enough to publish consistently.
I have two new books coming out. In November of 2017 the third Edition of the Project Manager’s Book of Forms was released. In January of 2018 the Project Manager’s Book of Tools and Techniques will be released. These two books align with the PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition.
The Book of Forms has a new format and provides a link to download the forms electronically. The electronic version of the forms has been much improved. The Book of Tools and Techniques takes a deep dive into many of the techniques we use to manage projects. It describes the tool/technique and then provides a mini-case study on how it would be used. I think this will be really helpful for new and experienced project managers.
I hope these books are useful to you. Thank you for stopping by my author page.
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The writing style is typical of the Dummies series, and it's readable. I bought this book for an employee who was learning project management, and the use of Project 2016, and she quickly got up to speed with the software, which is probably the best recommendation one can make for a book like this! While I'd like to have seen some deeper discussion in places, as well as showing alternative approaches to planning a project, there's more than enough here to satisfy most requirements for someone starting to use Project 2016.
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It requires some knowledge of the software which it doesn't give. I gave up with the book quite quickly and just binge watched online youtube tutorials, did 'roleplay' like experiments of ideas not connected with the ones I wanted to so mistakes didn't matter . Even if you take into account the schmaltzy style of American tutors this is by far the best route to take save going on a course yourself.