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Project
Professional 2010 H30-03318
Visually select the right mix of resources—it's as easy as
drag and drop with the new team planner. Enhance team
collaboration to realize results—connect your teams with
Microsoft® SharePoint® Foundation 2010 task list and status
synchronization.
Microsoft® Project Professional 2010 gives you a powerful,
visually enhanced way to effectively manage a wide range of
projects and programs. From meeting crucial deadlines, to
selecting the right resources and empowering your teams, Project
Professional 2010 delivers new and intuitive experiences to
simply plan, manage and collaborate with individuals, teams and
the enterprise.
What's New
Microsoft® Project 2010 delivers powerful, visually enhanced
ways to effectively manage a wide range of projects and
programs. From meeting crucial deadlines to selecting the right
resources and empowering your teams, Project 2010 offers easier
and more intuitive experiences to help you simply be more
productive and realize amazing results.
Microsoft Fluent User Interface
- Work more efficiently with the simple and intuitive
Microsoft Fluent user interface—new graphical menus and a
familiar experience provide the tools you need to plan and
manage your project.
- Task-oriented tabs and contextual menu groupings reveal
powerful features, making it easier to get started and
realize results.
- Learn about features and rich formatting controls
quickly with descriptive tooltips and drop-down galleries.
- Simply be more productive by choosing your own menu
options, quick access toolbar settings and setting defaults.
- Save to XPS or PDF. Quickly share, print, and publish
project information from one location using the new
Microsoft® Office Backstage™ view.
Excel-Like Flexibility & Ease
- Enhanced copy and paste makes it easy to share
information effectively with other Microsoft Office
applications while retaining formatting.
- Add columns dynamically by entering data without having
to first select the data type.
- Simplify data entry with auto-complete which displays a
list of previously used values to select from.
- Automatic text wrap eliminates extra formatting steps by
adjusting row height to display full task names.
- Quickly mine data and analyze results with easy access
filtering for all columns.
- Create emphasis with rich color options and text
formatting to express ideas and solve problems in new ways.
User-Controlled Scheduling
- Gain flexibility with user-controlled
scheduling—manually schedule tasks with the information you
have right now or choose to automatically schedule tasks
with calculated dates and durations.
- Be alerted to potential scheduling concerns with
squiggly lines and choose how to manage potential problems.
- Gain insight with the Task Inspector to recognize issues
and take action early—solving problems before they
occur.Support rolling wave planning and easily create high
level forecasts using manually scheduled top down summary
tasks.
- Identify gaps by comparing manually scheduled summary
tasks with information rolled up from subtasks.
- In Microsoft Project Professional 2010, you can simplify
planning with inactive and activetasks to perform what-if
analysis.
Timeline View
- Simply create the ultimate graphical timeline to express
your schedule and plan.
- It's easier to see and share—drill into details and
visually recognize differences with a clear view of tasks,
milestones, and phases.
- Reach your audience with new impact by quickly copying
the timeline into an email, presentation, or any other
document with formatting retained.
Benefits
Familiar and intuitive.
The Ribbon makes finding and using your favorite tools simpler
with new graphical menus and a familiar experience to help you
easily create and manage projects. Tooltips and contextual
guidance provide information and shortcuts so you can accomplish
more in less time. In the new Microsoft® Office Backstage™ view,
simply save, share, print, or publish your projects from one
location.
Save time and effort.
Save time and effort with familiar and essential functions like
text wrapping, filtering, auto-complete, scroll and zoom, and
more. Insert new columns on the fly—data types are readily
identified so that you can quickly and effectively organize and
analyze details. Quickly share schedule details through enhanced
copy-and-paste, and retain key formatting between Project 2010
and other Microsoft Office applications.
Flexible and powerful.
User-controlled scheduling puts you in control and brings
together the flexibility and ease of use of a tool like
Microsoft Excel® 2010 and the power of the Project 2010
scheduling engine. Create project schedules at the level of
detail that’s right for your project. Work with summary data
initially or shift to a more detailed approach when it’s
convenient. Place notes as reminders of where additional
schedule information is needed, or simply add information as it
becomes available.
Easier to see and share.
With a completely new and visually enhanced timeline
view, you’ll have a clearer view of tasks, milestones, and
phases. Newly expanded color palettes and text effects help you
make every timeline and plan look their best—and help you to
swiftly see and share important dates and deliverables.
At-a-glance.
(Team Planner – Pro only)
See the right mix of people and resources: simply drag tasks to
effectively plan work for your entire team and project. The new
Team Planner view in Project Professional 2010 shows resources
and work over time, to help you spot problems and resolve
issues. New in Project 2010, the Task Inspector offers
additional analysis and intuitive guidance to resolve scheduling
conflicts derived from a task’s attributes and assigned
resources, which you can choose to act upon or not.
Control and deliver.
Quickly compare budget versus actual versus forecasted
values to measure an initiative's progress with the flexibility
of setting multiple baselines. Create high-level time-phased
budgets with user-defined categories for costs and labor.
Validate budgets against bottom-up estimates built by using
labor, material, and cost resources. Control project costs by
comparing budgets to completed tasks and forecasted totals. Use
built-in earned-value metrics for predictive analysis and
integrated performance management.
Evaluate possibilities.
(Inactive Tasks – Pro only)
Often you'll need to evaluate scenarios and consider options
when planning new projects or monitoring ongoing work. Using
inactive tasks, new in Project Professional 2010, you can easily
experiment with your project plan and perform what-if analysis.
A simple toggle removes or inserts one or more tasks, along with
their effect on the project schedule. Project 2010 also offers
more built-in tools to help support what-if analysis and
scenario comparison, including multiple-level undo and change
highlighting.
Collaborate with others.
(Task Status Updates – Pro only)
Connect your teams by synchronizing with Microsoft SharePoint®
Foundation 2010. Using Project Professional 2010, you can
synchronize SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Project Professional
2010 project task status updates for you and your team members.
You can also save your project files to SharePoint Foundation
2010 team sites to communicate plans and collaborate on
progress.
Grow capabilities.
(Connect to Project Server 2010 – Pro only)
Realize the power of unified project and portfolio management by
combining Project Professional 2010 with Microsoft Project
Server 2010. Together, Project Professional 2010 and Project
Server 2010 create the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management
(EPM) Solution, and deliver end-to-end capabilities to help
organizations prioritize investments and optimize resources,
gain control of all types of work, and visualize performance by
using powerful dashboards.
Enhance performance.
Use the 64-bit options of Project 2010 to enhance
performance and support very large projects and programs.
Project Standard 2010 and Project Professional 2010 are offered
in 32-bit and 64-bit options to support a diverse range of
project types and sizes. 64-bit options take advantage of the
expanded memory and optimized capabilities of the latest
processors and of the 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows
Vista. 64-bit Project Professional 2010 also offers enhanced
performance and handles extremely large project files with ease
when connected to Project Server 2010.
System Requirements
Operating System
- Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 3 (32-bit)
- Windows Vista with SP1
- Windows Server 2003 R2 with MSXML 6.0
- Windows Server 2008 with SP2 (32-bit or 64-bit)
- Windows 7 or later operating systems
Processor
- 700 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher
Memory
- 512 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher
Hard disk
- 2.5 gigabyte (GB); a portion of this disk space will be
freed after installation if the original download package is
removed from the hard drive.
Drive
- Media will depend on size of suites and localization
Display
- 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor
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