Microsoft® Project 2010 Inside Out

Chapter 15. Managing Master Projects and Resource Pools

• Structuring Master Projects with Subprojects

• Consolidating Project Information

• Opening Multiple Project Files as a Set

• Sharing Resources by 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 not only juggling 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:

• Kathryn manages a large project containing many phases or components for which other project managers are responsible. In Microsoft Project 2010, she can set up a master project with subprojects ...