The smart way to learn Microsoft Project 2013—one step at a time!

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

• Create and fine-tune your project plan
• Schedule tasks, set milestones, and assign resources
• Use Gantt charts to visualize project schedules
• Track progress and troubleshoot variances
• Communicate status with custom reports
• Learn project-management best practices

Table of Contents
Introduction

PART 1
Introduction to Microsoft Project
1 Microsoft Project, project management and you
2 A guided tour of Project

PART 2
Simple Scheduling Basics
Starting a new plan
4 Building a task list
5 Setting up resources
6 Assigning resources to tasks
7 Formatting and sharing your plan
8 Tracking progress

PART 3
Advanced Scheduling Techniques
9 Advanced task scheduling
10 Fine-tuning task details
11 Fine-tuning resource and assignment details
12 Fine-tuning the Project plan
13 Organizing project details
14 Tracking progress on tasks and assignments
15 Viewing and reporting project status
16 Getting your project back on track

PART 4
In-Depth and Special Subjects
17 Applying advanced formatting and printing
18 Advanced report formatting
19 Customizing project
20 Sharing information with other programs
21 Consolidating projects and resources

Appendices
A A short course in project management
B Developing your project-management skills
C Collaborating: Project, SharePoint, and PWA
D Using this book in a classroom

Glossary
Index
About the authors
How to download your ebook
Survey page