Linking projects

Marketing projects often involve people from outside the marketing department, making it difficult to track everything from within a single, comprehensive project.

For example, work for a tradeshow might involve the following types of work, each a project in its own right.

Identify and sign up individuals to attend, present, cover the booth, and so forth.

Produce marketing collateral.

Design, build, and test a demo.

Set up training sessions and/or speaking engagements.

Generate the customer invitation list, create the invitation, send the invitation, track the responses, and so forth.

Create and maintain the tradeshow web page(s).

Many of these individual projects are tracked and managed within the respective departments, but this never truly gives the coordinator a full view of whether the tradeshow will occur on time and without problems.

A project coordinator can create all of the necessary individual projects, assign owners to each, and then create child links from the tradeshow project to each of the subprojects. This provides the project coordinator with a single view in to the entire project.

You can organize projects by creating parent/children relationships between them.

No data is exchanged between parent and children projects; the relationship is for organizational purposes only.