Chapter 19: Consolidating Projects and Resources


Chapter at a Glance

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Share resources from a central resource pool across several project plans, page 409. Change a resource’s working time in one location, and see it updated across project plans, page 414. Create a consolidated project plan for a bird’s-eye view all activities across multiple projects, page 428. Link tasks across different project plans, page 431.

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In This Chapter, You will Learn How To:

  • image from book Create a resource pool to share resources across multiple projects.

  • image from book Look at resource allocation across multiple projects.

  • image from book Change resource assignments in a sharer plan, and see the effects in the resource pool.

  • image from book Change a resource’s working time in the resource pool, and see the effects in the sharer plan.

  • image from book Make a specific date nonworking time in the resource pool, and see the effects in the sharer plan.

  • image from book Create a project plan, and make it a sharer plan for the resource pool.

  • image from book Manually update the resource pool from a sharer plan.

  • image from book Insert project plans to create a consolidated project.

  • image from book Link tasks between two project plans.

Tip 

Do you need only a quick refresher on the topics in this chapter? See the Quick Reference entries on pages xxv–xlviii.

Important 

This chapter describes various ways of sharing resources and managing multiple projects. This process is more generally called portfolio management or enterprise project management. Project Professional, when used with Project Server, offers much more sophisticated ways of managing a portfolio of projects and resources across an enterprise. To learn more about the portfolio management tools available with Project Server, see Part 4, “Introducing Project Server.”

Most project managers must juggle more than one project at a time. These projects often share resources and are worked on simultaneously. Microsoft Office Project 2007 has several features to make it easier to work with multiple projects. In this chapter, you share resource information between multiple project plans and pull together separate project plans as a single consolidated plan.

Important 

Before you can use the practice files provided for this chapter, you need to install them from the book’s companion CD to their default locations. See “Using the Book’s CD” on page xix for more information. image from book




Microsoft Office Project 2007 Step by Step
MicrosoftВ® Office Project 2007 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))
ISBN: 0735623058
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 247

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