Sunday, June 17, 2007

Research Tools 1: Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project (or MSP) is a project management software program developed and sold by Microsoft which is designed to assist project managers in developing plans, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workloads.

Downloads for Microsoft Project:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/downloads/project.mspx

The application creates critical path schedules, although critical chain and event chain methodology third-party add-ons are available. Schedules can be resource leveled, and chains are visualized in a Gantt chart.

Readings:
(Elementary)
Microsoft Project 2003 for dummies / by Nancy Stevenson.

(Advanced)
Microsoft Office Project 2003 bible / Elaine Marmel.

1 comment:

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