Master Project and Sub-Projects

[mark12010]

Good morning:
I have been tasked with managing a project (Program) which involves implementing a JAVA licensing and Management system at multiple sites. Planning started 10/2014 and all sites must be complete by 6/2016. There are 32 sites, each site requires the exact same tasks and there should be approx. 4 sites "in flight" in various stages at any one time. I have created a project plan in MS Project for each site. For reporting purposes and general Project health checks I want to put all of these individual projects into one. Via Sub-Projects? I would consider myself a novice at best when using MS Project. Can anyone please advise me as to the best way to go about this? Any advise/suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
Mark

 

[JulieInMaine]

You have a couple of options:

Create a new project - setting the start date back to Oct 2014. Insert each project into the new Project through Insert > Subproject. If it is only for reporting purposes and you do not intend to create links between tasks in the projects - you may chose to insert without linking to the original.

Another option is to open all projects and then choose View Ribbon - New Window. Select all the projects listed to create a consolidated project.

If you have the same resources in all 32 projects - you need to re-think your design and consider using a resource pol file. You can then create the consolidated project through the pool file.

I hope this helps.