Microsoft® Office Project 2003 Inside Out

Chapter 14. Managing Master Projects and Resource Pools

• Structuring Master Projects with Subprojects

• Consolidating Project Information

• Sharing Resources Using a Resource Pool

As a project manager, you juggle time, money, resources, and tasks to carry out and complete a project successfully. Often, however, you're juggling not only multiple elements of a single project, you're also juggling multiple projects—each with its own associated challenges. The following are three typical scenarios involving multiple projects:

• Katherine manages a large project containing many phases or components for which other project managers are responsible. In Microsoft Office Project 2003, she can set up a master project with subprojects representing those subphases. ...