MicrosoftВ® Office Project 2007 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))
Chapter at a Glance
In This Chapter, You will Learn How To:
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Create a resource pool to share resources across multiple projects. -
Look at resource allocation across multiple projects. -
Change resource assignments in a sharer plan, and see the effects in the resource pool. -
Change a resource’s working time in the resource pool, and see the effects in the sharer plan. -
Make a specific date nonworking time in the resource pool, and see the effects in the sharer plan. -
Create a project plan, and make it a sharer plan for the resource pool. -
Manually update the resource pool from a sharer plan. -
Insert project plans to create a consolidated project. -
Link tasks between two project plans.
| Tip | Do you need only a quick refresher on the topics in this chapter? See the Quick Reference entries on pages xxv–xlviii. |
| Important | This chapter describes various ways of sharing resources and managing multiple projects. This process is more generally called portfolio management or enterprise project management. Project Professional, when used with Project Server, offers much more sophisticated ways of managing a portfolio of projects and resources across an enterprise. To learn more about the portfolio management tools available with Project Server, see Part 4, “Introducing Project Server.” |
Most project managers must juggle more than one project at a time. These projects often share resources and are worked on simultaneously. Microsoft Office Project 2007 has several features to make it easier to work with multiple projects. In this chapter, you share resource information between multiple project plans and pull together separate project plans as a single consolidated plan.
| Important | Before you can use the practice files provided for this chapter, you need to install them from the book’s companion CD to their default locations. See “Using the Book’s CD” on page xix for more information. |
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