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Scheduling for Home Builders with Microsoft Project

by: David Marchman & Tulio Sulbaran, PhD

Publisher: BuilderBooks.com®

Pages: 104

Format: Soft-cover

Pub. Date: 2006

PLU#: 00241

ISBN#: 978-0-86718-621-5

About This Book:

Control costs, pace construction, and fully utilize resources with Microsoft Project. An organized, well-planned schedule is a builder’s best tool. Scheduling for Home Builders with Microsoft Project provides easy step-by-step instructions to help you master this powerful scheduling program.

Every chapter of Scheduling for Home Builders with Microsoft Project helps you learn and practice each new skill. The CD offers sample residential schedules. Learn how to:

• Create a realistic construction schedule
• Document all changes to the schedule, and who made them
• Assign and track resources and costs
• Adjust time scales, milestones, and task links
• Monitor and update the schedule
• Print customized project reports
• Communicate with trade contractors and home buyers

"I've been using Microsoft Project since the early 1990s as a scheduling and business management tool, but I had to learn it through trial and error. Marchman and Sulbaran present an efficient, effective method of developing a project schedule utilizing Microsoft Project. I wish I had this manual 10 years ago!"    -John Day, John Day Homes, Inc., North Bend, Washington

"This book is a great primer for builders to gain a basic understanding of job logic and how to get started scheduling with Microsoft Project. I have used this powerful computer scheduling software for years in my production management training."   -Chuck Shinn, President, Shinn Consulting/Lee Evans Group, Littleton, Colorado

You must have Microsoft Project 2003 installed on your computer to access the files on the CD. There are two versions of Microsoft Project - standard and professional. The difference between the versions, besides price, is that the standard version is designed for a single user, whereas the professional version is designed to be used on a server and accessed by multiple users. The practice exercises in this book were created using Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003.

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