Learn proven project management strategies as you master the world’s #1 project management software

Here’s a winning combination: a series of successful project management strategies that cover every phase of the process AND an insider’s guide to the most powerful and versatile project management software available anywhere. That’s what you’ll find in Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2000.

A synchronized learning system helps you get with the program

Microsoft Project 2000 brings 21st-century power to this already formidable tool. Whether you’re an experienced user preparing to upgrade to Microsoft Project 2000 or an aspiring project manager who needs to understand the big picture as you gain control of the details, this remarkable one-stop guide helps you make the most of this outstanding new program. It puts you in control of every new feature and enhanced capability, including how to:

• SCHEDULE TASKS AND TRACK PROGRESS using task calendars, deadline dates, estimated durations, baseline and interim plans, and more
• MANAGE RESOURCES FOR BETTER TASK SCHEDULING with new methods that let you vary resource availability, specify material resources, and set task priorities for resource leveling
• MODEL PROJECTS GRAPHICALLY WITH NETWORK DIAGRAM VIEW, which offers flexible viewing and formatting of program information in a graphical layout of tasks
• MANAGE TASKS AND RESOURCES ACROSS A WORKGROUP with Microsoft Project Central–a Web-based companion to Microsoft Project 2000 that allows for task delegation up and down organizational lines, task progress reporting, and narrative status reporting
• WORK FASTER AND SMARTER by jump-starting new products with templates, grouping tasks and resources, creating your own work breakdown structure numbering scheme–and much, much more

This volume was created to mark the centenary of the birth of Sean O'Casey. It covers every aspect of his life and work, with essays from leading scholars in the field of O'Casey studies: Ronald Ayling, Bernard Benstock, Mary FitzGerald, David Krause, Robert G. Lowery, William J. Maroldo, Alan Simp son and Stanley Weintraub, to gether with a Chronology and a list of productions of O'Casey's plays, both by Robert G. Lowery. The subjects covered include O'Casey's relations with the Abbey Theatre, Lady Gregory, W. B. Yeats, and Bernard Shaw together with assessments of the influence that James Joyce, politics, religion and Ireland had on the play wright and his plays.