Microsoft Project Essentials: Plan, Manage, and Deliver Projects with Confidence - Softcover

Waghmare, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798868815621

Verlag: Apress, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Microsoft Project has been a trusted tool for professionals worldwide, providing robust solutions for planning, executing, and tracking projects of any scale. This book serves as a comprehensive guide to mastering Microsoft Project, offering everything you need to elevate your project management skills and achieve your goals efficiently.

The book starts by exploring Microsoft Project features and setting up your Project profile. You will then learn how to manage tasks and resources in Microsoft Project. Further, you will demonstrate scheduling and timelines followed by a deep dive into budgeting and cost management of the project. Moving forward, you will understand Microsoft Project's integration with M365 and learn Agile Project Management techniques. In the end, you will learn the advanced features and future patterns in Microsoft Project along with expert tips for efficiency.

After reading the book, you will be able to create detailed project plans, set milestones, and develop schedules using Gantt charts.

What You Will Learn:

1. Discover how to assign resources to tasks, manage workloads, and optimize resource allocation
2. Gain skills in estimating project costs, tracking expenditures, and managing budgets effectively
3. Learn how to update project status, track progress against the plan, and manage changes efficiently
4. Integrate Microsoft Project with other Microsoft tools like Teams and SharePoint for enhanced collaboration

Who This Book Is For:

Project Managers, Business Analysts and Consultants 

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Charles Waghmare works for a global energy leader since 2019 as a Business Analyst in the Microsoft 365 space. Before that, he worked at Capgemini for eight years in various roles, including Yammer Community Manager and manager of the Drupal-based Enterprise Knowledge Management system. He also developed a knowledge management platform for the Digital Customer Experience (DCX) organization using SharePoint Online to manage Client references and knowledge assets related to Artificial Intelligence and Customer Experience (CX), using Microsoft Azure Chatbots to automate processes, develop proactive conversations with users, and create new use cases.

Charles also worked for ATOS (erstwhile SIEMENS Information Systems Limited) for five years. During his tenure there, he was a Community Manager of SAP-based communities, where he utilized Technoweb 2.0 – a Yammer-like platform and on-premises SharePoint. Also, Charles was a global rollout manager for a structured document management system built in on-premises SharePoint.

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Microsoft Project has been a trusted tool for professionals globally, providing robust solutions for planning, executing, and tracking projects of any scale. This book serves as a comprehensive guide to mastering Microsoft Project, offering everything you need to elevate your project management skills and achieve your goals efficiently.

The book starts by exploring Microsoft Project features and setting up your Project profile. You will then learn how to manage tasks and resources in Microsoft Project. Further, you will demonstrate scheduling and timelines followed by a deep dive into budgeting and cost management of the project. Moving forward, you will understand Microsoft Project’s integration with M365 and learn Agile Project Management techniques. In the end, you will learn the advanced features and future possibilities in Microsoft Project along with expert tips for efficiency.

After reading the book, you will be able to create detailed project plans, set milestones, and develop schedules using Gantt charts and other tools.

What You Will Learn:

• Use Gantt charts and other tools to create project plans, set milestones, and develop schedules
•          Discover how to assign resources to tasks, manage workloads, and optimize resource allocation
•          Gain skills in estimating project costs, tracking expenditures, and managing budgets effectively
•          Learn how to update project status, track progress against the plan, and manage changes efficiently
•          Integrate Microsoft Project with other Microsoft tools like Teams and SharePoint for enhanced collaboration

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Apress
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798868815621
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH; ProductSafety@springernature.com; ; Europaplatz 3; Heidelberg; 69115; Deutschland