Dependences
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With the breakdown of complex projects into sub projects you will end up in the dependences of other project, running one or more subroutines. These dependences should also be viewable and controllable with the project plan.
To display these dependences, the project module gives 'rules'. With the definition of rules, project managers can relate dependences of projects together to avoid conflicts running the projects. A typical rule defines for example, that project A must not start before project B hasn´t finished. All further rules are permutations of this example.
To have such rules, does have two impacts:
- - In case the given start- and end times of the affected projects are in conflict with the rules, an alert will be displayed.
- - In case the status of each project is in conflict with the rules, the action cannot be executed, that means: project A is to be set on 'in work', though project B is already in this status.
Similar to the rules is the feature for set project 'previous or 'next' of neighbouring projects to be displayed to certain project. This setting does not affect any programm activity, this only gives a proper list view of the projects in the Gantt diagram.
