setting up overlapping projects (newbie)

[F. Flamm]

I'm just starting to us MS Project 2003 Professional. I need to track
documentation project activity for an endless series of overlapping tasks
(document the product for release 1, document release 2, document release 3
etc, where the people who are starting work on release 2 are still tidying up
on some release 1 tasks, such as translation-related activities).

I'm considering using a never-ending master project and as many finite
subprojects as it takes (one per release), but the online help says "MS
Office Project Professional and Project Server 2003 have built-in reporting
and anlaysis features that replace the need to create master projects and
subprojects." Is there another approach I should be considering? (We're not
using Project Server 2003.)

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi F. Flamm,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

As I understand it, you might have trouble with a Master when you use the
full facilities of Project Pro and Server. As you're not using the server,
Pro will effectively revert to being the Standard version. As such, you
should have no problems using a Master file.

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.)

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP