Re: Newbie genearl PM question

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Hi prodilosso,

A can offer a few general guidelines and I am sure that others will have
some suggestions as well.

You may wish to consider separate project files later consolidated into a
master if:

The tasks put into one project would be unwieldy to work with in terms of
opening and working with the file. Usually that would be files with greater
than 1,000 to 2,000 tasks.

Multiple people need to work with portions of the project at the same time.
For instance, Joe may be responsible for phase 1, Mary may be responsible
for phase 2, Pete is responsible for phase 3. It would make more sense for
phase 1, 2, and 3 to be in separate files so each person can work with the
phase he/she is responsible for.

As far as your comment about only having one project opened at a time, as
far as I know, having multiple files open in Project has been around for a
long time. What version of Project are you using?

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
"prodilosso" <prodilosso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Can anyone provide general guidelines as to when a massive project should
be
split into linked .mpp files?
I'd like to put the Program in one file and the sub-projects in separate
files.
I know that you can have a task constrained to an external source BUT ...
it appears that I can only have one project open at a time so it is
difficult to work with.
Thanks,
PR


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