Normally I work with Primavera, but is currently working in a organisation where they are using MS Project.
I have suggested that we link activites in different projects (files), as one development project is split into several areas each having thire own plan.
The other planners in the organisation then told me, that it is not possible due to performance. One of the statements is: "Generally when hard link is used while opening the plan or saving or publishing the master project will try to refresh the child projects with the updated data hence there is a performance issue in this type of linking. More over if the links are with big project the issue becomes more."
and
"while linking projects we are handling a lot of data ( all the tasks and their fields and their values). So it is a bit natural to face a performance issue for sub projects but if we can have more faster network or servers or if we only link small projects to link that can reduce the issue."
Is it correct that MS Project cannot handle links between projects (we have between 30 and 600 activities per project)?
If it is correct how can we then see the dependencies between plans and the consequenses of an delay in one plan?