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Scheduling for Home Builders with Microsoft® Project, Second Edition

by: David Marchman & Tulio Sulbaran, PhD

Publisher: BuilderBooks.com®

Pages: 104

Format: Soft-cover

Pub. Date: 2006

PLU#: 00241

ISBN#: 9780867186215

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, Second Edition provides easy step-by-step instructions to help you master this powerful scheduling program.

Every chapter of Scheduling for Home Builders with Microsoft® Project, Second Edition helps you learn and practice each new skill. Create efficient schedules to monitor and control construction progress using Microsoft® Project 2003. 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.