Introduction 1Part 1: Getting Started with Project 2019 5Chapter 1: Project Management, Project 2019, and You 7Chapter 2: Starting the Project 19Chapter 3: Becoming a Task Master 39Chapter 4: The Codependent Nature of Tasks 53Chapter 5: Estimating Task Time 65Chapter 6: Check Out This View! 81Part 2: Managing Resources 101Chapter 7: Creating Resources 103Chapter 8: Working with Calendars 119Chapter 9: Assigning Resources 135Chapter 10: Determining a Project's Cost 147Part 3: Before You Baseline 157Chapter 11: Fine-Tuning Your Plan 159Chapter 12: Negotiating Project Constraints 173Chapter 13: Making the Project Look Good 187Chapter 14: It All Begins with a Baseline 205Part 4: Staying on Track 213Chapter 15: On the Right Track 215Chapter 16: Project Views: Observing Progress 237Chapter 17: You're Behind -- Now What? 249Chapter 18: Spreading the News: Reporting 265Chapter 19: Getting Better All the Time 287Part 5: The Part of Tens 297Chapter 20: Ten Golden Rules of Project Management 299Chapter 21: Ten Cool Shortcuts in Project 2019 307Appendix: Glossary 313Index 321
Cynthia Snyder Dionisio is a project management consultant, trainer, and author. She also leads the team that creates the PMBOK Guide, the standard for project management that is published by the Project Management Institute. She has written more than a dozen books, including A Project Manager's Book of Forms and A Project Manager's Book of Tools and Techniques.