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Microsoft Project is an excellent project planning,scheduling and control tool. Project 2010 in easy stepswill quickly get you started and making use of thepowerful features of the product. Beginning with firstprinciples, the book sets out the right way to start aproject and develop the project plan. It shows you how tobreak a project down into tasks, which can then bescheduled, allocated to resources to be carried out,tracked and controlled to completion. It explains thedifferent types of task dependencies and how to use themto make sure things happen when they are needed. Formedium to larger projects it shows you the best way tostructure your project for success. Projects are carriedout by people and other resources; and this book showsyou how to allocate and control the resources on yourproject, track holidays and vacations and even deal withpeople working on different shift patterns. It coverspeople and other revenue costs, together with capital andfixed costs so you can stay in control of your projectcosts.