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Knowledge Area By Project Phase Creating Links Between Projects
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https://share.ps.net/fndr/EQS/Project%20Management%20Instant%20Oatmeal/default.aspx?CalendarDate=11%2F5%2F2010
“Instant Oatmeal”January 23, 2012
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Develop Schedule Dependencies Projects are
not islands they
interact
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Links Between Projects
Forrest Kovach, MBA, PMP, MCTS - Project
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Build Projects by Team or Work Stream
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Connect Projects in a Collector Project
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Insert Projects as Subprojects in the Collector
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Insert Projects as Subprojects in the Collector
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External Relationships Feature
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Creating Links
Private Cloud needs Network Infrastructure Compete
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Creating Links
Select Tasks From Separate Sub-ProjectsClick First Task ID, hold Crtl KeyClick one or more Successors
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Creating Links
Click the Link Tasks Tool
MS Project Creates the linkBetween Subproject with the PathAnd file names.
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Creating Links
Use this technique to track key deliverablesfrom many sub-projects to aIntegrated Master Schedule
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• Links can be added manually in the Predecessor, Successor, Unique ID Predecessor or Unique ID Successor fields.
• For Example, the following entry in a Successor Cell:– 292,C:\Users\Forrest_Kovach\Documents\WK Transition\
TR_WK_Integrated Master Schedule\DELL WK PPM.mpp\593
– Says link to 292 within the project and link to line 593 in the DELL WK PPM project.
– The use of Unique IDs may be more expedient for creating manual external links as these numbers are fixed.
– Use the same technique in Unique ID fields with the Unique ID line numbers.
Maintaining Links
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Progressing in the Collector
• No different than progressing in a single file.
• Performance may be slow if the number of tasks exceeds 2000.
• Project Status Date Must be Set in Individual Files
• Use the Project Field to Identify what file is being progressed.
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Progressing in the Collector
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Progressing in the Sub-Project
• Faster response time
• Can still see impact of external connection in Total Slack
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Issues with Link Paths
• If files are relocated to a new path MS Project attempts to find the missing links and creates new external links.
• The new added links may become redundant with existing links.
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• The resources from all projects can be viewed the Resource Sheet.
• Time Phased data can be viewed in aggregate in Resource Usage or Task Usage
Viewing the Aggregate Resource Sheet
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Aggregate Resource Time-phased Data
• To use the same resource across multiple subprojects requires a resource pool
• Establish shared resourcesin the Collector Project
• You can then allocate a resource across multiple sub-projects to see allocations.
• Resource pools are not required in Project Sever
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