Microsoft Project Version 2002 Inside Out

Teresa Stover first encountered formal project management in 1986 as the technical publications supervisor for a startup technology company, figuring out how she and her staff could complete seven documentation projects at once. With an early version of Apple s MacProject, soon PERT charts were papering her office walls, and light bulbs were going off in her head about the wonders of project management. In 1987, she started Stover Writing Services and was managing documentation projects for multiple clients. These clients have included Apple Computer, National Semiconductor, Boeing, MetLife, Unisys, and most significantly, the Microsoft Project User Assistance team. For these clients she has developed books, online help, tutorials, and multimedia productions. Having won seven Society for Technical Communications awards, including a Best In Show, Teresa s other books include titles on Windows, Office, Team Manager, and Microsoft Money. When not writing in her Victorian home office in southern Oregon, Teresa conducts workshops on computer, business, and project management topics. She also volunteers for the American Red Cross, and plays store Saturdays at her husband s shop, Stovepipe Antiques. Teresa can be reached at sws@echoweb.net.

Stephen T. Adams has been writing Basic since it was an acronymn, back in the 1970s. Originally training to be an intelligence analyst with the CIA, he changed directions in 1990 and began a career in the software industry. He has worked in product support, software testing, and as both an editor and a writer, publishing his first book in 1992. Stephen was an award-winning technical writer for Microsoft Project from 1996 until 2002, when he took a developer position at Microsoft. An avid auto racing fan, Stephen can occasionally be found tearing it up at the local track, where he likes to pretend he s the next Ayrton Senna.

Bonnie Biafore always got things done. When she started to use Gantt charts, she realized the term was project management. In 1996, she started a project management consulting company, MonteVista Solutions, Inc, but soon added writing to her offerings. Redlining others writing and documenting how to use software tools was a lifelong habit. Exploiting this inclination, she authored the Complete Idiot s Guide to Online Personal Finance. She writes a monthly column on investing using the Internet for Better Investing magazine and is finishing a stock study handbook for the National Association of Investors Corporation (NAIC). When she isn t working, she roams the nearby mountains with her husband, Pete, and their two Bernese Mountain Dogs, Emma and Shea.

James A. Scott is a rare case of a history major done good. A strong fascination with computer technology and software development quickly pulled him back from the dark side in the mid-1990s, leading him down the path towards technical writing. Since then he has been involved with technical writing, creating Web sites (both copy and code), working with XML when it was almost brand new, and finding ways to enjoy being handed increasingly difficult subjects to write about. During off-times, James can usually be found somewhere in the vicinity of a football (soccer) field.

Ken Speer has been involved with project management since the mid-1980s, when mainframe-based project management systems were the cutting edge. He has experienced the evolution of project management technology firsthand, through the use of Microsoft Project version 1.0 to the present. Ken has been a project management consultant since 1996, with experience in government contracting, aerospace, finance, software development, and telecommunications projects. Along with using it himself, Ken has mentored other professionals in the use of Microsoft Project. An English teacher and gymnastics coach in a previous life, currently Ken s biggest extracurricular interests are music and bicycling, followed closed by hiking and traveling.