Amazon.com description: Product Description: Microsoft Project^® 4.0 For Windows^™ and the Macintosh^® Setting Project Management Standards Peggy J. Day Every time a project due date is missed, it costs your company money. If you want to add real dollars to your bottom line, tight project management is the one sure way to do it. Whether you’re writing software or planning a space shuttle launch, completing projects on time and within budget is the key to fiscal and marketplace success. Having a standard system for planning and managing multiple projects not only makes everyone’s job easier, it puts you back in the driver’s seat. Using standardized procedures, forms, and reporting systems, you can spot trouble a mile away and offer help when and where it’s most needed. The popular and immensely readable Peggy Day guides you step-by-step toward increasing your corporate productivity using today’s most popular project management program. Drawing on her many years as a project management consultant, Ms. Day names, points out, and leads you around every conceivable pitfall awaiting an organization blessed with creativity, individuality, and deadlines. If you want a guide that can show you how to manage multiple projects in an organized and efficient way, including all the steps necessary to get a quality product out the door, this is the book for you. Nervous about standardization? Relax. There’s no sacrificing your company’s individual goals and processes with Ms. Day at the helm. Even your most reluctant maverick will appreciate the benefits of standardization once they see how Ms. Day folds tried and true project management techniques into your company’s existing goals, systems, hardware, and processes. From a basic discussion of the principles of project management to practical guidance on planning, implementation, and follow-up, you’ll find all the information necessary to manage all the projects throughout your company.

• How to target productivity to time, resources, and budget constraints
• Tips on project outlines, plans, and tracking
• Time-saving shortcuts
• Procedures for integrating Microsoft Project^® 4.0 with existing business plans and objectives
• Guidelines for using project models with standardized procedures

No more reinventing the wheel. Every project will be up and running faster, new managers can learn the ropes in half the time, and best of all, you’ll know what’s going on. Microsoft Project^® 4.0 for Windows^™ and the Macintosh^® is the latest title in the VNR Project Management Series.