Project setup question

[therealcatman]

I have Project 2007 Standard edition installed here at work. I am trying to
use it to schedule and plan work for the manufacturing floor. It will be
resource driven using the workers as the resources. I need to know the best
way to set up the projects and subtasks along with the pro's and con's of
each. Is it better to use a Master project with each job # as a subproject
linked into it? Or have 1 project with each task being a job # and have the
tasks of each job indented?

Thank you for your help.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

I posted a reply to an identical question a coupel of days ago, so here's
the copy/paste:

It depends on one thing: will you be the only one to manipulate these plans
or will you ask indivoidual project leaders to update?
If you will be the only one, having all projects in one file is way easier.
If you will ask other people to handle individual projects, it is better
that each has his/her own file and you consolidate (because a file can only
be open read/write by one person at the time)

Hope this helps,

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[Ron]

Personally working in one project with the Job # being the header and tasks
for the job indented. To me its the easiest. As jobs are completed you can
always copy them into another plan to keep the info.

 

[therealcatman]

I am the only one using the program. It seems much easier to use just one
project. I set up both ways and the resource pool sharing is not working well
in the multilple project in a master version. Thank you for the feedback.