http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management.aspxenhttp://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/2721.aspxSun, 15 Nov 2009 23:45:03 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:2721EStallsworthGantt charts make managing projects much easier, and Microsoft Project 2007 makes creating and using them a snap. Creating a Gantt chart in Project 2007 is really fairly easy task to do. In this article, you'll learn how to create one, as well as how to use various in the application. Introduction A Gantt chart is basically a bar chart used in ...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/1548.aspxFri, 13 Nov 2009 11:30:33 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:1548deannaUpon certification, Exam 70-632, Managing Projects with Microsoft Office Project 2007 certifies that project managers and key project team members are experienced using Microsoft Project 2007 to schedule, estimate, coordinate, control, and budget and staff company projects. Getting Certified in MS Project In 2007, Microsoft launched a new certifica...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/4921.aspxTue, 03 Nov 2009 20:55:59 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:4921deannaA step-by-step guide to using Slack in your Microsoft Office Project files. This is Part Two in a two-part article series. Click here to read this series from the beginning. Build Slack You can build free and total slack into your project plan in a couple of ways. One of the things you can do to build in some slack is to change the relationship bet...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/4972.aspxTue, 03 Nov 2009 20:54:02 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:4972deannaA step-by-step guide to creating custom project reports in Microsoft Project. This is Part Two in a two-part series on creating custom project reports in Microsoft Project. To read this article from the beginning, click here . Create a Custom Calendar Report It is also possible to create a monthly calendar report. This report can contain filters to...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/4971.aspxTue, 03 Nov 2009 20:53:30 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:4971deannaA step-by-step guide to creating custom project reports in Microsoft Project. Even though Project has more than 25 predefined basic reports (and visual reports ), you have the option of creating a custom basic report based on your individual project needs. Custom reports can be summarized by: Task Resource Calendar Crosstab You create custom report...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/4835.aspxThu, 22 Oct 2009 14:11:29 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:4835deannaA step-by-step article for using lag and lead time in a Microsoft Project 2007 file. This is Part Two in a two-part series on using Lag & Lead time in Microsoft Project 2007. Click here to read this article from the beginning. Lead Time Lead time is a head start you give a successor task. You will use lead time whenever you want a successor tas...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/5871.aspxWed, 21 Oct 2009 20:17:47 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:5871deannaAn experienced Microsoft Project instructor and published author offers her personal lecture notes from a popular Project 2003/2007 Level 1 class. Below are my personal lecture notes from a Microsoft Project Level 1 class. You can download the accompanying PowerPoint presentation in Bright Hub's Project Management Media Gallery by clicking here...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/4967.aspxWed, 21 Oct 2009 20:08:19 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:4967deannaA step-by-step guide to leveling resources in Microsoft Project This is Part Two in a two-part article series. To read this article from the beginning, click here . Performing the Leveling After your task and project priority levels have been set, you are ready to use Project's resource leveling tool. To level your overallocated resources, follow t...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/4917.aspxTue, 20 Oct 2009 15:51:46 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:4917deannaA step-by-step guide to working with effort-driven scheduling in Microsoft Project 2007. This is Part Two in a two-part article series. Click here to read this series from the beginning. Effort-Driven Scheduling Scenarios Consider a task with a duration of 5 days that has work of 10 hours. That is to say, your resource will be working 2 hours a day...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/12212.aspxSat, 17 Oct 2009 07:05:55 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:12212LWatrousMicrosoft Project 2007 is a well-known and widely used program in the Project Management field. In this article, Lucinda Watrous reveals10 MS Project keyboard shortcuts to help save you time and trouble. What is Microsoft Project? Microsoft Project is a program to help you manage your projects by integrrating with the rest of the MS Office Suit...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/52620.aspxFri, 16 Oct 2009 11:33:07 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:52620SparkKDMacros are great tools that can be used to automate repetitive tasks. In this guide, we'll take a look at how to create and run a macro in Microsoft Project. Introduction A macro is a name used for a computer program which is used to execute a series of instructions. Usually a macro is utilized for something which is repetitive in nature. Examp...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/blog/archive/2009/09/20/microsoft-project-2010-beta-coming-soon.aspxSun, 20 Sep 2009 10:40:40 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:49431mmcdonoughIf you're a Microsoft Project user and are interested in trying out the upcoming release of Project 2010, now's the time to throw your name in the hat. Microsoft has announced that the beta of Project 2010 will be coming soon and is currently taking requests for those interested in being involved in the beta trials. If you'd like to put...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/48745.aspxSat, 12 Sep 2009 12:45:37 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:48745venkatluxYou will find innumerable books and articles out there on Resource Management. Most of them deal with the complexities of the topic, and it takes a while to get started using Microsoft Project for Resource Management. This article takes a different approach with doing, followed by learning. Warming Up Once a project has been broken down into manage...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/46339.aspxTue, 25 Aug 2009 04:05:07 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:46339venkatluxThis lesson covers some more details about toolbars and icons in Microsoft Project. We will also discuss a few useful tips and tricks for performing certain actions. The best way to learn more tricks in Microsoft Project is to play around with the toolbar icons, as you will learn here. Toolbar Icons The first two lessons in this tutorial on Microso...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/46338.aspxTue, 25 Aug 2009 04:04:22 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:46338venkatluxIn this tutorial, we will learn how to navigate through Microsoft Project screens and functionalities. We will discuss the initial screen layout, menus, various toolbars, the icons in the toolbars, and give a few useful tips and tricks as you enter data and move around in Microsoft Project. Introduction One idea behind taking this subject up in Les...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/45691.aspxTue, 25 Aug 2009 04:03:41 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:45691venkatluxThis tutorial deals with tasks in Microsoft Project software. Questions such as how to insert a new task, how to modify an existing task, how to redefine dependencies between tasks are all answered here. We also cover special features such as defining milestones, dummy tasks and grouping. Learning Objectives In our previous lesson, we went through ...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/46741.aspxTue, 25 Aug 2009 04:00:37 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:46741venkatluxIn this lesson we will discuss the different types of task dependencies and learn how to define them in Microsoft Project. This is a continuation of what we have learned in Lesson 2 of this tutorial about task insertions and the default type of relationship. What is a Task Relationship? In the first lesson on Getting Started with Microsoft Proj...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/45402.aspxThu, 20 Aug 2009 08:58:50 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:45402venkatluxThis tutorial is designed to help you get started on Microsoft Project in literally 20 minutes. Without getting into the finer details, this article explains how to start your first project in Microsoft Project with any version of the software. Once you have an idea of the tasks, you can jump in... Getting Started There are no pre-requisites to the...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/13668.aspxThu, 13 Aug 2009 00:01:47 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:13668RondaRobertsThis how-to article demonstrates how to set up a Microsoft Project 2007 Plan for your project. In order to be able to use the really cool features that come with Microsoft Project 2007 , first you have to get the project plan into the program. This step can seem like climbing a mountain without the right equipment – especially to beginners.This art...http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/6547.aspxWed, 12 Aug 2009 14:02:32 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:6547RondaRobertsProject Management can be overwhelming at times itself. Why complicate things by using complicated programs? This article examines five project management software programs that are easy to use. Sometimes simple is better. When it comes to project management software , this is especially the case. Some of your employees and team members may be ...