Am in same position. Have been using PowerProject for last 4 years. However, a change in the situation with regards to our contract and services means a change in planning software as MSP is their standard planning package.
Therefore, no point in knocking it blah blah. Its what I have to use. Therefore, need to develop a greater understanding of the more adavanced features.
True, it’s no Primavera but it serves a purpose for projects that don’t want to, or can’t afford to spend a great deal of money on planning applications.
From a selfish point of view I wouldn’t want to go back to MS Project or Primavera if I’d been using PowerProject for four years, but I guess you’ve got to play the hands youre dealt.
Ive always found Dynamic Scheduling: With Microsoft Office Project 2003 by Eric Uyttewaal to be a useful reference. Its MS Project 2k3 rather than 2k2, but I dont think theres a great deal of difference between the versions.
Special Edition Using Microsoft Project 2003 by Tim Pyron is pretty good as well, but probably aimed at the new/intermediate user.
Im sure Paul Harris also has a book(s) out for MS Project, but I havent read any so cant recommend them.
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24 years 2 monthsRE: Reference Books
That will one of the options.
At the moment its more to do with multiple projects, resources, consolidated files, calculated fields, export to Excel etc etc.
I can use MSP to do all of the above, but would like to know more of pitfalls, tips & tricks.
We are not in a MSP Server environment yet, but could see that happening at some stage in the distant future
I suspect sucj a reference book only existing the heads of people who have done the above, but no harm in asking
Cheers
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17 years 9 monthsRE: Reference Books
Mal,
How advanced do you want to get?
You could try VBA Programming for Microsoft Office Project by Rod Gill.
Regards,
Darren
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24 years 2 monthsRE: Reference Books
Darren / Brad
Thanks for the replies
Am in same position. Have been using PowerProject for last 4 years. However, a change in the situation with regards to our contract and services means a change in planning software as MSP is their standard planning package.
Therefore, no point in knocking it blah blah. Its what I have to use. Therefore, need to develop a greater understanding of the more adavanced features.
Anyone else with other suggestions
Cheers
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17 years 9 monthsRE: Reference Books
Brad,
True, it’s no Primavera but it serves a purpose for projects that don’t want to, or can’t afford to spend a great deal of money on planning applications.
From a selfish point of view I wouldn’t want to go back to MS Project or Primavera if I’d been using PowerProject for four years, but I guess you’ve got to play the hands youre dealt.
Regards,
Darren
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17 years 9 monthsRE: Reference Books
Hi Mal,
Ive always found Dynamic Scheduling: With Microsoft Office Project 2003 by Eric Uyttewaal to be a useful reference. Its MS Project 2k3 rather than 2k2, but I dont think theres a great deal of difference between the versions.
Special Edition Using Microsoft Project 2003 by Tim Pyron is pretty good as well, but probably aimed at the new/intermediate user.
Im sure Paul Harris also has a book(s) out for MS Project, but I havent read any so cant recommend them.
Regards,
Darren