How do you take care of project-to-project dependencies if....

A

anovak

From what I understand, with the default security, you only see a
project if:

You are status manager on the project
You are the PM for the project
Someone working for you is on that project's project team
You are on the project team for that project

What if there is a project in another group run by a different PM
which utilizes only people in their area but your project is dependent
on that project ? (e.g., Yours can't start until a milestone is
reached in the other).

How would you go about creating that project-to-project dependency?

--without security tweaking?
--with security tweaking?

Thanks,
Andy Novak
UNT
 
D

Dale Howard [MVP]

Andy --

If there is truly a need for cross-project dependencies in a situation such
as you describe, then the standard security settings will simply not work
because the respective PM's need to have Read/Write access to one another's
projects. To get around this, you could modify the default security
slightly by doing the following:

1. Create a custom Category called Dependent Projects or something like
that, and select only the dependent projects.
2. Add the custom Category to the user account for each of the PM's with
dependent projects, and set the appropriate permissions for the Category.

Hope this helps.
 
B

Ben Howard

Hi Andy,
Why don't you use deliverables so that at least you can track the
dependencies. Deliverables are just part of the solution, x-project
dependencies rely more on good communication and process rather than
technology.
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Thanks, Ben.
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A

anovak

Hi Andy,
Why don't you use deliverables so that at least you can track the
dependencies. Deliverables are just part of the solution, x-project
dependencies rely more on good communication and process rather than
technology.
Click to expand...

Oh yes, I understand about good communication winning each and every
time. Just thinking out loud and trying to figure out how to handle
the exceptions. Alot of folks I talk to recommend against using
project interdependencies. So, I guess you could define a deliverable
in your project that represents output from another project that one
of your tasks depends upon? Am I reading this right?

Thanks,
Andy Novak
UNT
 
A

anovak

Hi Andy,
Why don't you use deliverables so that at least you can track the
dependencies. Deliverables are just part of the solution, x-project
dependencies rely more on good communication and process rather than
technology.
Click to expand...

Another individual at one time said that in their organization, when
there needs to be a project-to-project dependency, that's where the
PMO comes in and does that for them once identified.
 
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