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Build your students' Microsoft Office 2003 skills through the realistic, engaging projects in this revised text. Microsoft Office 2003- Illustrated Projects offers meaningful projects in each of the four main Office applications-Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint-as well as projects for integrating these applications. Students will learn to produce a variety of viable, real-life documents, such as resumes, business cards, budgets, presentations, and more through easy-to-follow steps, large screen shots, and images of completed projects.
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With over 40 professionally designed templates, multiple page designs, dozens of fonts, and stunning tables and charts, Pages—Apple's new word processor—makes it easy to create polished documents with a minimum of fuss. Part word processor, part layout program, it lets you place alignment guides to help you position text and graphics precisely on the page while text flows around any kind of graphic, no matter where you put it. (Try doing that with Microsoft Word!) Students can use Pages to create school reports; parents can use it to send out birth announcements; anyone can use it to create an advertising mailer, church newsletter, party invitation, or just a plain old letter.
Here to help is this small, smart, streamlined guide designed to take readers from standing start to stellar finish, no matter what project they're tackling. Rather than cover every last option Pages offers, this book steps readers through several sample Pages projects, showing them the quickest, most effective way to communicate their ideas. Each short lesson builds a component of a basic Pages document, from choosing a template, deciding on a layout, formatting charts and tables, incorporating graphics and color, and adding a bit of polish to a final document. Friendly, step-by-step instructions and large, full-color screen shots make the information instantly accessible.
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In content and form, this reference book shines!.......2007-06-10
Pages was great when originaly itroduced. Now, in version 2.0, it has exceeded its own expectations to provide excellence wel beyond the ordinary. This edition of "Creating Pages with iWork: Visual QuickProject Guide"
by David Morris, will provide you with the best any "how to" guide could offer. If you love Macs, if you appreciate Pages, you will be blown away wih the quaity of not only Pages 2.0, but also the manner in which the information is presented in Moriss' "Creating Pages with iWork: Visual QuickProject Guide."
A nice practical introduction to Pages.......2007-04-08
The author has chosen a good range of projects for this work. They closely match the projects we're involved with in our local Parents and Citizens group to help out at our daughter's school. Very convenient.
The presentation allows for either staged progress through the content or more random access to concepts as you need them.
It's short enough to be digestible but contains most of what you need in Pages, short of AppleScript and other more advanced topics.
If you're relatively new to Pages and would like a good way in this book is probably for you. If you are a more advanced Pages user or have a lot of word processing experience in general you would probably benefit more from a more advanced treatment.
This book does what it sets out to do very well.
BUY THIS BOOK -- WOW, WHAT A BARGAIN!.......2005-11-30
Wow, what a bargain! Here's what's so GREAT about this book:
1) The chapters are clearly organized and thought out. Each chapter provides you with a quick, fun, creative project in which you painlessly learn about many of Pages' key program fundamentals.
2) The book provides its instructions in a clear, visual, step-by-step manner that makes learning VERY EASY, yet effective!
3) This author loves to use full-color illustrations, which makes following the author's instructions a real snap.
4) More than a simple word processor -- this author teaches you how to create NEAT projects that look great. You will learn how to create professional-looking projects in this book.
5) Doesn't waste your time. I completed this book within a couple of days and was able to immediately start publishing all kinds of neat publications afterwards.
My summary -- BUY THIS BOOK!! You won't regret it. Wow, what a bargain!
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Now included with Microsoft Office, Project 2003 is the world's leading project management tool. With extensive help resources and printing assistance, Project 2003 enables users to organize and track tasks and resources efficiently to keep projects on time and within budget. If you want to realize the immense potential of Microsoft Project 2003 and harness the many features and functionality of this powerful tool, you need Project 2003 Personal Trainer. It includes everything you want to know about Project 2003--and then plenty more. It's the most complete and engaging tutorial available for Microsoft Project. As part of O'Reilly's new Personal Trainer Series, this book is based on content from CustomGuide (www.customguide.com), a leading provider of computer training materials that fly in the face of traditional, dry course materials that bore users to tears. CustomGuide is dedicated to delivering courseware, quick references, software bulletins, and e-learning courses that are fun, flexible, and easy to use. And this book is no exception to their rule. Project 2003 Personal Trainer lets you, whatever your technical expertise (or lack thereof), learn exactly what you need to know--at your own pace. Unlike many consumer software tutorials that dumb down (and dull up) the material or make it exceptionally technical and confusing, this book is written in a style that you'll find entertaining, easy to follow, and most of all, clear and informative. Beginning with the fundamentals of planning and managing a project with Microsoft Project 2003, the book then includes sections on:
- working with the task list
- managing costs, timelines, and available resources
- using the project database
- viewing and updating a project
- tracking progress
- creating reports
- handling multiple projects
The fully illustrated Project 2003 Personal Trainer features dozens of time-saving, task-oriented lessons, includes detailed diagrams, and comes with a fully interactive CD tutorial to guide your learning--everything you need to become a Project pro.
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A nice addition to my bookshelf at work..........2005-07-21
Learning to use Microsoft Project is one of those things I know I *should* know but don't. Project 2003 Personal Trainer by CustomGuide has now become the latest "just in case" addition to my bookshelf at work...
Content: The Fundamentals; Entering the Task List; Entering and Assigning Resources; Viewing the Project; Working with Tasks; Working with Resources; Working with Costs; Balancing the Project; Updating Project Progress; Checking Project Progress; Working with Reports; Working with Multiple Projects; Index
As a software developer, I work on a number of projects. But fortunately, the type of development I do is normally not such that it requires the overhead of having to use Project to plan it out. And if it does, I've been lucky to have a project manager to handle all that. I know at some point my luck will run out, however. Project 2003 Personal Trainer is a practical, example-/exercise-driven approach to learning the basics of the software. The philosophy behind CustomGuide is "I listen, I forget; I see, I recall; I do, I understand". Therefore, the entire book is set up to have you actually *do* stuff with Project in order to understand how it works and to learn how to make it go where you want. There's a CD included that is a Project 2003 simulator, so you can still learn the software even if you haven't plunked down a check to Microsoft for Project. This is really nice, in that it gives you maximum flexibility on where you can set up your learning environment regardless of software licensing issues. I can't think of too many better ways to get up to speed more quickly than with this material.
Don't expect that this book will be a long-term reference volume, though. If you are a full-time project manager who is going to live in Project, this book will get you moving quickly. But if you want to learn the fine intricacies of a Gantt chart, you'll need to look elsewhere. That's not to say that this book falls down in that area. It's just not meant to be the end-all repository of all things Project. Get this book, get your feet wet, develop some basic competency, and then decide if you need to go deeper.
I'll be keeping this book on my work bookshelf and watching it closely to make sure it doesn't disappear...
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Most salespeople now have laptop computers, but rarely receive training in how to use them effectively to make a sales presentation. How to Sell with a Laptop is the first book that tells sales people: How to use a laptop computer strategically on each sales call; What to do and what not to do when delivering a laptop-based sales presentation; How to use the Web to access information during a sales call, and; Tips for making easy PowerPoint presentations - customized for each client. The first framework to help both consultatns and their clients measure the impact - and return on investment - of consulting projects. Today's consulting business faces an accountability crisis. Consultants are increasingly being required to prove the measurable value - and return on client's investment - of their work. The Consultant's Scorecard outlines a valuable new program that allows both consultants and their clients to measure the success of consulting and performance improvement projects in terms of business impact, ROI, and other widely accepted performance standards. Based on innovative methods that have worked for leading companies including AT&T, Compaw, and Bristol Myers-Squibb - complete with case studies and examples - The consultant's Scorecard contains checklists, tables, and charts to help the reader isolate each critical area of the consulting project. It is the first book to provide a step-by-step method for confidently evaluating the overall success of consulting and performance improvement projects.
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This is the first book to provide a step-by-step method for confidently evaluating the overall success of consulting and performance improvement projects.
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Highly Recommended!.......2001-05-30
As any consultant - and author Jack Phillips - will tell you, the days when a consultant could make a living by sharing the latest trendy approaches to business are long, long gone. Today's executives expect consultants to adhere to the same standards of accountability that consultants themselves have advocated for years. Therefore, the ability to determine a consulting project's return on investment is an important skill for both executives and the consultants they hire. Phillips offers a practical approach to ROI that somehow avoids consulting jargon and complex formulas. Although it lacks case studies that show how to overcome specific obstacles to data collection and interpretation, this is a valuable book that fills in an important piece of the consulting puzzle. Best of all, it does so in a common-sense way that can be understood by carbon-based life forms, therefore we [...] recommend this book to consultants and those who hire them.
Good overview, but light on the actual details.......2001-01-11
Phillips provides a good, general overview of the metrics to consider in evaluating the return on consulting engagements. However, the book could have been significantly improved by the addition of at least one complete example of an application of the suggested method for calculating ROI, including a more in-depth treatment of the many survey methods suggested. Further, some of the snippets of the quantitative examples are simplified to the point of being misleading. Finally, the concept of the scorecard, which was part of the title of the book, was not developed in the text.
Campbell's Soup.......2000-06-27
Just like the soup, this book is mmmm...mmmm...good!
As a client, the book provided a very clear guideline to keep consultants accountable. I now feel that I will know when hiring a consultant is both a good idea and cost-effective. Knowing that I had read this book, our consultants were able to better communicate with us. Overall, incredible!
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Too abstract.......2003-09-30
This book is full of excellent information with tools and methodologies for future systems analyst work BUT the information is so abstract. There are no real practical examples in any of the chapters which would make it easier for me to grasp it (not to mention help with the assigned homework). Unlike most college subjects and textbooks that have three or more examples at the beginning of a chapter, this book has little if any at all.
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Proven strategies for companies seeking to accelerate an ERP implementation
Almost all large and midsize corporations worldwide will be involved in implementing enterprise resource planning and/or e-business applications over the next two to three years. This is the only book that discusses how to implement a rapid ERP system and shows how e-business is impacted by the implementation of an ERP system. This book also provides valuable tried and true methods of keeping the project under or within budget. A quality ERP transaction foundation is a prerequisite for taking advantage of many of the new e-business opportunities that executives have placed high on their list of priorities. This valuable guide examines the strengths and weaknesses of ERP and shows when rapid implementation is not appropriate. The book also provides outsourcing alternatives and the use of application service alternatives, and shows how e-business is impacted by the implementation of an ERP system.
Murrell G. Shields (McLean, VA) is the Director of Management Solutions and Services and National Leader of Technology and Infrastructure Services at Deloitte & Touche.
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Packed with Knowledge!.......2002-09-11
Implementing new software into your company's core businesses processes is a painful procedure. Technically challenged readers might well find some pain in the pages of this book, but the agony is no fault of the author. The topic at hand, integrating new software applications packages with current systems, is one of the most complex and difficult challenges in all of business. We from getAbstract recommend that you take your medicine like a man (or a woman) and read this comprehensive guide to meshing new software with your old business. You are sure to benefit from its practical strategies and management techniques, as will your company.
Structured, Realistic and Well Thought Out.......2002-07-03
This book covers what it takes to successfully manage a rapid implementation project for any enterprise-wide application. It does so in a structured and realistic manner that addresses risks, critical success factors and common deliverables. Project management is much more than common sense - it requires a process and skillful use of PM techniques, such as those contained in PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). This is reinforced by the appalling number of IT projects that either fail or are cancelled. While this book doesn't go deeply into specific PM techniques, nor does it especially align to the PMBOK, it does provide a realistic framework. It also gives a complete list of risks and barriers to success that you'll encounter in ERP and other complex systems projects.
I especially like the way the author decomposes the systems into layers and the project approach into phases. These allow you to step back and see the big picture, and to do a better job of estimating scope, complexity and required resources before embarking on the project. The project management approach itself is solid, and is linked to critical success factors that will make or break any project. He also provides excellent advice on team management, and especially team communications and cross functions.
Managing complex projects are not easy, and this book contains no short cuts. It does show you how to plan and control a rapid implementation project for any enterprise system, and if the advice and general approach provided in this book is heeded and followed your chances for success will be dramatically improved. Just don't let anyone who thinks it's a matter of plain common sense anywhere near the project because you'll find the project to be just another statistic in the boneyard of failed IT projects.
Too shallow.......2002-05-12
To read this book is a waste of time, to buy it is a waste of money. Too much of it is common sense (given that project management is to a good degree made of common sense) and not specifically adjusted to E-Business/ERP projects. The general approach is to do everything faster, but the authors forget that changing volume or quantity of work is affecting the quality too. To take one step out of a 'normal' project plan (realization) and rename it 'rapid implementation' is not enough to live up to the new (and old) challenges that come with implementing E-business and/or ERP solutions. The title of the book is misleading, as the authors are not presenting approaches that should be taken by project managers faced with such an implementation. No specific risks or solutions are laid out that come with such an implementation i.e. interface development, integrating different applications, data exchange etc. If you are an experienced project manager looking for a guidebook this book tells you nothing new, if you are an aspiring project manager this book is not providing enough.
Strong project approach, some gaps - overall: valuable.......2001-05-19
This book provides a sound approach to planning and managing an ERP rapid implementation project, but falls short of the mark on the "E-Business" part alluded to in the title.
First, the strengths: the rapid implementation roadmap that is the topic of chapter 2 is thorough and well thought out. The phases are commit [to the project], start, manage, analyze, configure, test, change, support, convert, prepare, go live and improve. The roadmap gives both structure to a project plan and breaks it down into manageable pieces.
Chapter 3 covers vendor selection, and provides excellent material for developing RFIs and RFPs and evaluating responses from vendors. Among the best practices given here are identifying key requirements, focusing on what is essential and using a proof-of-concept approach. Managing the rapid implementation, chapter 4's topic, is comprehensive and is consistent with sound project management practices. Key areas that are particularly strong address taking a deliverables-based approach, managing scope and project issue management. These are the ingredients of a successful implementation and the author covers them in depth. Chapter 5 covers the people part of the equation by providing guidance on how to organize the implementation team, roles and responsibilities, and managing change. My favorite two chapters are 6 and 8. Chapter 6 addresses nine essential factors for success, the best (in my opinion) is the rule that no reengineering is allowed during the implementation. This is sage advice because if you attempt to take advantage of opportunities to reengineer you are going to quickly drift outside of project scope, not to mention slowing to a crawl what is supposed to be a rapid implementation. Chapter 8, my other favorite chapter, gives a list of "project accelerators", which are methods or processes that will ensure that the rapid implementation is rapid.
Weaknesses: (1) The author does not address E-business despite the title of this book. I am going to assume that the publisher insisted on including that in the title. (2) There are some glaring gaps in the author's "eXtended Enterprise System" (EXS) framework. He cites six layers using the technical infrastructure as the foundation and moving up through a transactional backbone, advanced applications, cross-application repository and a management dashboard as the capstone. What is missing from the picture is middleware, including transaction monitors, message queuing and the other "glue" that holds together an enterprise architecture. While this book is more suited for project managers, the omission is serious because the middleware layer increases the scope and complexity of an ERP project as well as the cost. (3) Technology support issues (chapter 7) was not strong in identifying release criteria to production, not the artifacts that production needs in order to support an ERP system. Release to production is a critical point in the life cycle that affects IT service delivery, as well as operational considerations (performance and capacity baselines, workload scheduling, etc.).
Recommendation: The rapid implementation approach given in this book is complete and attainable. The author gives practical advice that can be applied to not only ERP implementations, but other system implementations as well. As such, this is a good book for project managers and upper IT management. If you note the gaps I cited above and take them into account, this book will lead you through a successful implementation. I am subtracting a star for the misleading title and the weaknesses, but still highly recommend this book.
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In the past, project success has been defined too narrowly as simply meeting time and cost constraints for a given scope of work. However, in order for an IT project to be completely successful that basic definition of success needs to be extended to include meeting return on investment expectations, product quality, stakeholder satisfaction, security, maintainability and adaptability. Also, the formal methods and tools of the project management discipline need to evolve to address the changes in modern software engineering and our high-tech global workplaces. With this broader and more appropriate definition of success, IT project management techniques and tools can be modernized, extended, and otherwise focused to be more effective. Project Management for Modern Information Systems describes and illustrates practices, procedures, methods, and tools for IT project management that address this extended definition of project success for modern times.
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Excellent up to date student text.......2006-03-23
"Project Management for Modern Information Systems" is the text book I would recommend to new students of Project Management. It incorporates the latest techniques, terminology, and interfaces to related technologies. Well written and easy to read. Subject matter is well organized.
Project Management for Modern Information Systems.......2006-03-18
"Project Management for Modern Information Systems" offers a thorough examination of Project Management for project mangement professionals emphasizing information systems, but definitely not limited to or constrained by IS. Development of each topic includes technical, business, and strategic perspectives, building clear imperatives for "best practice". Each chapter is well developed and easy to read with excellent examples throughout.
RIgorous Yet Accessible.......2006-01-19
I have had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Brandon and hearing him speak multiple times on the subject of project management, and I feel confident in saying that you ll have a hard time finding anyone with the depth and breadth of experience Dan possesses. Furthermore, through his academic and industry experience, he has learned to write about project management principles in a manner that is both rigorous yet easy to understand.
Need to Know.......2006-01-07
The author presents IT project management in an easy to understand, applied manner. A must for IT managers from large or small enterprises. Get this book. It's a must read.
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Schedules, budgets, communications, resources. Projects big and small include them all, and Microsoft Project 2007 can help you control these variables -- not be controlled by them. But Project is complex software, and learning it is, well, a project in itself. Get up to speed fast with
Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual. Written by project management expert Bonnie Biafore, this book teaches you how to do everything from setting budgets and tracking schedules to testing scenarios and recognizing trouble spots before your project breaks down.
Find out what's new in Project 2007 from previous versions, and get help choosing the right edition, whether it's Project Standard, Project Professional, or Enterprise Project Management Solution. With Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual, you get more than a simple software how-to. You also get a rundown on project management basics and plenty of solid advice on how to use Project to:
- Define your project and plan your approach
- Estimate your project, set up a budget, define tasks, and break the work into manageable chunks
- Create a schedule, define the sequence of work, and learn the right way to use date constraints and deadlines
- Build a project team and assign resources to tasks: "who does what"
- Refine the project to satisfy objectives by building reality into the schedule, and learn to keep project costs under control
- Track progress and communicate with team members via reports, information sharing, and meetings that work
- Close out your project and take away valuable lessons for the future
Microsoft Project 2007 is the flagship of all project management programs, and this Missing Manual is the book that should have been in the box. No project manager should be without it.
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It's not project management.......2003-05-17
I do not understand how the editor or author determined the tag line for this book, but nothing could be further from the truth. The tag line states: "The Project Management Guide to Planning and Implemeneting System Installations, Conversions and Mergers." There is nothing about project management in the book nor conversions nor implementations. It was written at about the time the first PMBOK was published and uses no PMBOK definitions.
Here is the table of contents.
1 - The Status of the Financial Services Industry
2 - building a Winning Strategy
3 - Establishing a Good Business Foundation
4 - Maximizing Noninterest Income
5 - Enhancing Asset Quality
6 - Optimizing Capital
7 - Marketing financial Services
8 - Managing Finacial Risk
9 - Controlling Costs
10 - Putting it all Together
11 - Critical Path Analysis
12 - Strategic Alignment
13 - Business Process Reengineering
14 - Looking beyond branch automation
15 - Productivity (squared) and Power in a changin bank
16 - Employee Enhancement as a competitive Differentiator
17 - Making a Merger Work
The chapter on Critical Path defines 'critical paths' as 'each of the critical factorys has a logical relationship the the others, and those relationshipas are direct, not funneld through some control point.' As you can see, its not the longest path through a schedule network.
The chapter on mergers, the last chapter in the book, is merely a discussion of the high level characteristics of a good merger candidate. Nothing about how to actually do it and certainly no 'Project Mangement Guide' as promised by the tag line.
This book provides no value to the financial sector project manager.
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- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
- The Asian Century: The Economic Ascent of the Pacific Rim and What It Means for the West
- The Accelerated Learning Handbook: A Creative Guide to Designing and Delivering Faster, More Effecti
- The Mom Inventors Handbook: How to Turn Your Great Idea into the Next Big Thing
- A Place of Safety: A Chief Inspector Barnaby Novel
- The Tyranny of Elegance: Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Goethe
- Consulting Demons: Inside the Unscrupulous World of Global Corporate Consulting
- The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy
- The Wooden Overcoat
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003: Complete Concepts and Techniques, CourseCard Edition (Shelly Cashman)
Microsoft Office System Plain & Simple -- 2003 Edition (Plain and Simple)
Introduction to Information Systems
Discovering Computers 2006: A Gateway to Information, Complete (Shelly Cashman Series)
Thinking and Writing about Literature: A Text and Anthology
