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Subprojects

Use sub projects to group related projects under one master project for scheduling purposes. Establishing sub project associations lets you create plans and track and analyze an individual project in detail. The associations also help viewing, summarizing, and analyzing the progress of several projects at the master project level. You can use master projects with subprojects to perform top-down planning and to share resource availability across projects.

Subprojects are allocated at 100 percent to the master project, and participate in the master project baseline and earned value metrics. You cannot change the allocation percentages.

You can associate any number of projects together. Information is not shared between the subprojects and the master project, or between the subprojects themselves.

Example

You create a master project named Database Reconstruction which contains three subprojects: Oracle, Sybase, and FoxPro.

More information:

Add Subprojects to Master Projects

Create Subprojects from Project Templates

Create Subprojects from Project WBS

View Combined Subproject Actuals and Estimates (projects)

Control Access to Subprojects

Update and Display of Master Project Baselines