Breaking large projects into smaller ones causes resource conflict

[bkoren]

I had a large project with assigned resources and baseline hours. This was
too large to manage so I broke it down into 2 smaller projects. The way I
did this was by making a copy of the larger project then deleting the tasks
for that I didn't want in either project. I did not unassign resources. I
kept the first project under its original name and renamed the second
project. Now when I level the second project my resources cannot start until
after they have completed their assignment on the original project. The
problem is they no longer have tasks on the original project. For some
reason my second project thinks they are still assigned to the first project.
Any suggestions on how to resolve this problem?

Thanks,
Barb

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Barb,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

I suggest you create a project pool and share each project with that pool.
Now create a Master and insert the 2 projects. That should do it. You
might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the TechTrax
ezine, particularly #17 & 18 on multiple projects, at this site:
http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(Perhaps you'd care to rate the articles before leaving the site,
Thanks.)

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Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP