Initiative or Multi project?

[anuradha_majumdar]

We are implementing 5.0. Our customer has requirement for managing child projects under a project. The child projects will have similar lifecycle to the parent project. What is the best way to achieve this? Should we use initiatives and items within it or should we use multiproject functionality of cProjects? What are the pros and cons?

Thanks,

Anuradha

[former_member209919 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Iff you use / items you wil have several projects in this/item but from operation point of view ( project manager) these projects dont have relationship

If you use multiprojects the project manager will see their projects linked .

Not sure if this help you..

[Former Member]

Hello Anuradha,

If the customer requirements include being able to report child-project costs individually, then your PPM design must include separate items for each child project i.e. you create one initiative and assign all the related child-projects to the initiative.

If child-project costs do not need to be detailed in PPM as above (or can be done via consolidated PS/PPM BI reporting), then you have some choices within c-projects.

Regards,

Colin

[anuradha_majumdar]

Thanks Dave

Yes, we need to maintain and report costs for each child-project for more than an year. Each child-project can also be in different phases of execution.

Regards,

Anuradha

[Former Member]

Hello Anuradha,

Suggest then that you go with the design of one Initiative with many assigned Items. This will also support individual project tracking by phase.

Regards,

Colin

[Former Member]

Hi Anuradha,

Select the sub project check box in project type.

and create the sub projects under the task level.

Regards,

Sreenivas