Hi all

Thanks in advance for any guidance.  We have set up approx. 6 projects in our new project server environment and will be ramping up dozens more.  We would like to establish a lot of cross-project dependencies (i.e. predecessors/successors in a master-sub configuration).  It could by more than 500 links.  What kind of impact would that have performance (or stability) to the projects in the master-sub?

Thanks
Art

Hi Art,

In my point of view, this is more about how many subprojects will you have in your master projects? 10, 25, 50? Once the master plan with the subprojects opened, it should be no problem to manage many cross-projects links, even if 500 seems a lot to me. Your master plan might become hardly understandable, particularly if you try to see the impacts on the entire plan while moving a task.

A workaround would be to use the deliverables/dependencies feature. See this blog I wrote about it a while ago:

http://psbehindthescene.blogspot.com/2015/07/why-deliverabledependency-feature-is.html

I agree with Guillaume, trying to manage over 500 links is massively complex.  I would always track this dependencies elsewhere as well, especially if they are more complex than a 1:1 relat