Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Microsoft Project
Welcome to your hands-on learning journey with Microsoft Project. Consider first an analogy—learning to ride a bicycle. You cannot learn to cycle by just learning about the parts of the bicycle from a book. It is important to actually get on the bike and learn to balance and pedal. In the same way, you will now learn Project by using it to create schedules over the course of this book. This is because being adept at Project requires you to both learn the techniques and then practice them yourself.
The single biggest hurdle to learning and using Project is that it appears complex and intimidating. This is the reason most new learners give up early or don't even start. There are a multitude of switches, buttons, options, and views. To compound the fact, sometimes working on one area of the schedule mysteriously seems to affect other areas. But fear not, my gentle reader, as my goal is to remove that intimidation factor and...
