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3.2. Building the Project Hierarchy

The first step is to create the projects and subprojects in a hierarchy that will reflect your overall goal. At this stage it's better not to worry about schedule dates and resources - you can adjust those later.

First create a project (under Managed Projects ) with a summary that reflects your overall objective. Then, think about the main things that must be accomplished along the way, and fill these in as subprojects of your overall project.

Now, for each subproject, think of what must be accomplished, and add these on as further subprojects of that subproject. Do this for each subproject. Depending on the level of granularity that you wish to have you may stop, or continue to break up the subprojects into further subprojects. A good guideline for when to stop breaking up subprojects is - when the time that a particular subproject will take can be accurately estimated, there's no need to further break up that subproject.

See the section Working with projects to see how to build up a hierarchy.

As a general rule, it is best to create an umbrella project and fill in subprojects of this project, rather than adding subprojects directly to Managed Projects.