In the Trenches with Microsoft® Office Project 2007

Introduction

PROJECT PLANNING has been around longer than any of us can remember; one might speculate that project planning began when groups of people first started living together, making multiple resources available to do the tasks needed to live. That first project manager might have been the one who ultimately became "chief" of the group by demonstrating good management skills in "getting the job done" while best utilizing existing resources and generally making sure that everything that needed to be done got done efficiently. Project management and project managers concern themselves with scheduling, budgeting, managing resources, and tracking and reporting progress.

As we’ve progressed, project management has become a discipline made up ...