Managing Projects With Microsoft Project 2000 (PDF)

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