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 PowerBI linking of the Log entry with the milestone details across both projects gives a great view of whether dependencies are aligned - exactly what we needed!
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