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Part 3 Special Projects Contents vii 16 Applying Advanced Formatting 350 Formatting a Gantt Chart View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 Formatting the Network Diagram View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 Formatting the Calendar View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 17 Customizing Project 366 Sharing Custom Views and Other Elements Between Project Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . 368 Recording Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 Editing Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377 Customizing a Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382 18 Measuring Performance with Earned Value Analysis 388 Viewing Earned Value Schedule Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 Viewing Earned Value Cost Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394 Generating an Earned Value Visual Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 19 Consolidating Projects and Resources 402 Creating a Resource Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404 Viewing Assignment Details in a Resource Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410 Updating Assignments in a Sharer Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412 Updating a Resource’s Information in a Resource Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 Updating All Plans’ Working Times in a Resource Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 Linking New Project Plans to a Resource Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 Opening a Sharer Plan and Updating a Resource Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422 Consolidating Project Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 Creating Dependencies Between Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 Part 4 Introducing Project Server 20 Planning Work with Project Server 436 Understanding the Key Pieces of Enterprise Project Management . . . . . . . . . . . . 438 Building a New Plan from an Enterprise Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440 Staffi ng an Enterprise Project with Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 Publishing a Plan to Project Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
viii Contents 21 Tracking Work with Project Server 450 Reporting Actual Work Through Project Web Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452 Reporting Actual Work Through Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454 Handling Actuals from Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 Keeping Stakeholders Informed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459 22 Managing Risks, Issues, and Documents with Project Server 462 Part 5 Appendices Managing Risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464 Managing Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467 Managing Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470 A A Short Course in Project Management 475 Understanding What Defi nes a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475 The Project Triangle: Seeing Projects in Terms of Time, Cost, and Scope . . . . . . . 476 Time, Cost, and Scope: Managing Project Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479 Managing Your Projects with Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482 B What’s Next? 483 Joining a Project Learning Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483 Joining a Project Management Learning Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485 Final Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495 What do you think of this book? We want to hear from you! Microsoft is interested in hearing your feedback so we can continually improve our books and learning resources for you. To participate in a brief online survey, please visit: www.microsoft.com/learning/booksurvey/
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