Appendix A: Using This Book as a Textbook
Several colleges offer project management as a higher education course and match it strategically with Microsoft Project. This book will be an excellent match for your syllabus because it maps to the core project management process groups and concepts, as well as the project life cycle. If you want to use this book as a textbook for your own institution, course, or learners, you are welcome to do so.
Specific advantages to using this book include the following:
- Incremental complexity. It starts from the simplest topics and projects and gradually progresses to advanced topics.
- Features and techniques introduced exactly as needed in real-life practice.
- Learning content is equally distributed over the entire project life cycle.
- Advanced topics are neatly segregated and can be made optional – for example, the chapter on advanced custom reports, or the chapter on the inner workings of views.
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