Master projects

[Anahita]

Hi everyone,
We have a huge project that is going to take a few months.
I was thinking we could divide it into Master and
subprojects but I’ve heard using master projects can
course lots of problems. Does anybody know what problems
we might have if we use Master projects?
Thanks,
Anahita

 

[Dale Howard]

Anahita --

If you save a master project in the Project Server database, and publish the
master project, it will double the resource allocations for every resource
in every subproject associated with the master project. To avoid this
problem, I create master projects temporarily and do not save them. I know
that it takes a few minutes to recreate the master project each time I want
to use it, but it avoids the above-stated problem very nicely. Hope this
helps.

 

[Anahita]

Thank you Dale,
Anahita

-----Original Message-----
Anahita --

If you save a master project in the Project Server database, and publish the
master project, it will double the resource allocations for every resource
in every subproject associated with the master project. To avoid this
problem, I create master projects temporarily and do not save them. I know
that it takes a few minutes to recreate the master project each time I want
to use it, but it avoids the above-stated problem very nicely. Hope this
helps.

--
Dale A. Howard
Project Management Trainer/Consultant
Denver, CO





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[Steve Bering]

Anahita,

Dale is correct about the master project issue. You can however publish all
of the subprojects to the Project Server and have a master project saved as
an MPP file on your local machine. This will allow you to schedule those
projects together but eliminate the duplicity issue.

Regards,
Steve Bering

 

[Anahita]

Thank you Steve, I think I'll do that.
Anahita

-----Original Message-----
Anahita,

Dale is correct about the master project issue. You can however publish all
of the subprojects to the Project Server and have a master project saved as
an MPP file on your local machine. This will allow you to schedule those
projects together but eliminate the duplicity issue.

Regards,
Steve Bering

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[Cheri Phillips]

Hope I can jump in here, because this is exactly the problem I'm looking at
right now. It is all well and good to have a master project saved as a MPP
file on my local machine or even on our server, but I've yet to find a way
to build a view that looks and behaves anything like the master project on
Project Server - where everyone could view it!

Is there a way to create a view on Project Server that shows all the
subprojects (like Project Center), but you can see the details of each
project by just scrolling down?

I can find no way to build a combination view on Project Server (BIG
limitation), so how do I create the Resource Allocation view that shows me
ALL the tasks for a given resource, sorted by priority or by date or
project - as I would be able to see if I had a the master schedule .mpp file
and selected Resource Allocation view.

I'm having a tough time selling my mangement and fellow managers on Project
Server without these things.

Thanks for any help!
Cheri

 

[Gary Chefetz [MVP]]

Cheri:

Click on the resource center in Project Web Access, then click the View
Resource Assignments link on the left hand side. Apply filtering and
grouping to get what you want.

--
Gary Chefetz [MVP]
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

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