Project Management Using Microsoft Project 2019
A Training and Reference Guide for Project Managers Using Standard, Professional, Server, Web Application and
Project Online for Office 365
by Gus Cicala
Wilmington, Delaware
Project Management Using Microsoft Project 2019
Author : Gus Cicala
Content Contributor
& Microsoft MVP: Jeremy Cottino
Technical Content Editor: Bill Gundrum
Development Editor: Jan Goodman
Copy Editor : Daniel Cicala
Product Manager : Noreen Hackman
Cover Design : Asha Hossain
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Dedication
To all the Zen masters of project management who strive for the promise of Delivering the future into the present one day at a time through your mastery of the arts and science of our profession:
May your patience with the reality of the present enable you to craft the expected project outcomes through a skillful re-synching of the revised plan with the passionless and relentless unfolding of reality.
May you always have a keen awareness and unconditional acceptance of what is.
May the winds of unfavorable variances be always at your back, propelling your project to deliver the transformational benefits for our species and the wider universe.
May you be bestowed with a wealth of resilience and an abundance of composure that inspires your stakeholders to consistently accept the new realities of the present.
May you prevail despite the ongoing resistance from those who desperately grasp for the unwelcome and unexpected past to be controlled and maybe even attempt to re-write that unforgiving history to align to the ever-elusive and now long lost original baseline.
Namaste!
Gus Cicala
April 2017
Acknowledgements
I would like to acknowledge and thank everyone who played an important role in the development and publication of this book:
Noreen Hackman, a true leader who aggressively attacks every challenge with gusto, for her instrumental role in unknotting the mysteries of turning a corporate training guide into a successful commercial publication
Daniel Cicala, for bringing his command of the English language to tame and herd the expertise of technical people into a clear and coherent text
Asha Hossain, for providing her fantastic graphical art support for the Project Assistants brand over the past 20 years, including the cover of this book
Bill Gundrum, a powerhouse of Microsoft Project expertise and experience, who again has fine-tuned the technical content to make for a clean, accurate, and complete product
I would be remiss in not mentioning many of the past team members who were so instrumental in developing an indispensable portion of the original content that has survived through to this edition: Jan Goodman, Alex Ovecka, Fred Oettle, Denise Cicala, Ira Brown, Michael Steinberg, Graham McHardy, John Godley, Laurie Van Dusen, and Jeremy Cottino.
I am grateful and blessed for your dedication, commitment and valuable contributions to our success.
Table of Contents
part
I
Introduction to Project Management
Introduction
Understanding Project Management Concepts
Introduction to Microsoft Project 2019
chapter 1