Microsoft Project 2013 Plain & Simple

KISS works for me...

Great book in it's simplicity. I was rushing headlong onto the deadline of a 3 year project that was 2 1/2 years late; not to mention I was tasked to it 1 1/2 years before deadline (3 other contractors and 3 other PMO's had already gone by the wayside.) I am not a PM professional, just an interested stakeholder who was getting majorly pee'd-O in having the project constantly going off track and crashing. I needed to get a handle on the project and it was like trying to balance on a moving training highballing to a deadend trestle. The data was there in a ppm format, I just need a way to pull it up and see where I was at. This tome is as the title portrays: getting through it was "short and basic." But given my time contraints, that was exactly what I needed. Getting through it gave you the basics of what everything did and where it was if you had to find it; and enough of the language to be able to quiry the help systems to get you close to what you wanted to do. The walk throughs and example with either made up data or "working" data took you to points where you could adapt the techiques and tools to what you had to do. Or got you close enough to work your way to what you wanted to show. It is not a know all, do all, book, but a good basic starter. Once you get going, you can look for other texts on specific topics areas you need to work on. I recommend this to anyone who needs to do a quick study of Project 2013, who has little knowledge of scheduling, and has to start to work in 0-60. Read more