Dependency Management - A workable solution!
Last year I raised a post about the use of the various inter-project dependency management options available in Planview - Successor/predecessor relationships in plans, investment dependencies, CRI logs, Roadmaps - the options are extensive but they all had their limitations. If you really need to create a ‘hard link’ between milestones in 2 projects, you only had one option - use the successor/predecessor relationships in the plan & leverage the Inter Projects Dependencies tile, accepting that this approach could result in cascading plan changes across the entire portfolio.I’m pleased to say that the latest Logbook release has provided a much more controllable solution - the Multiple Associations finally allows me to create a dependency record in a log, use this to hold the dependency context and create a ‘contract’ with my dependent project PM and link key milestones from both project plans without the risk on plan changes automatically cascading onto other projects. Some smart