Using Project to report stats for multiple projects?

[Wayne in Denver]

We are using Project to monitor a large group of development projects,
several hundred at any given time, and finding it is very manual intensive to
pull out statistics on how they are doing.

Anyone have suggestions?

Wayne in Denver

 

[John]

We are using Project to monitor a large group of development projects,
several hundred at any given time, and finding it is very manual intensive to
pull out statistics on how they are doing.

Anyone have suggestions?

Wayne in Denver

Wayne,
Although I don't use it, my first suggestion for that number of files is
Project Server. You might want to post to our sister newsgroup,
microsoft.public.project.server, for additional info.

If Project Server is not an option then I suggest you create a master
file or perhaps a group of master files to help manage the development
files. I suggest multiple masters since one large master with that many
subprojects is quite a bit to manage. Note that you can create a master
file of master files but I would limit the number of indentures. To
create a master go to Insert/Project and select all the files you want
to include. More information is available in Project's help file.

John
Project MVP

 

[Rob Schneider]

We are using Project to monitor a large group of development projects,
several hundred at any given time, and finding it is very manual intensive to
pull out statistics on how they are doing.

Anyone have suggestions?

Wayne in Denver

Wayne,

I'd simply insert them (all or some) into a master file as linked, then
show rollups there. Perhaps grouping them into "clumps" of files that go
into their own masters, and then insert these masters into a "super master".

Years ago (last century) I did this with hundreds of files like this ..
each one had 1 to 100 or so tasks, and it all worked ok.