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<para>A new project can be created by pressing the <guibutton>New Project</guibutton> button
    or selecting a <emphasis>project template</emphasis> in the <link linkend="startup-view">Startup View</link>.
</para>
<para>This will create a new project with default values defined in <xref linkend="configure-plan-dialog" xrefstyle="select:title"/>
    or from values defined in the template. The Project Settings Dialog will open to enable you to define project specific properties
    like <emphasis>project name</emphasis>, <emphasis>manager</emphasis> and <emphasis>target times</emphasis>.
</para>
<para>When you create your first project, consider creating resources in a separate file.
    When you refer to this file in your project(s), you do not need to define your resources again, and you can coordinate resource usage across projects.
</para>
<para>See <xref linkend="managing-resources" xrefstyle="select:title"/>.
</para>
<para>To coordinate resource usage across projects you can use the &portfolio;.
</para>
<para>A useful structure could be something like this:
</para>
<para><screen>
    Plan
    &nbsp;!-- Resources
    &nbsp;!      !-- SharedResources.plan
    &nbsp;!-- Taskmodules
    &nbsp;!      !-- Task modules (if any)
    &nbsp;!-- Templates
    &nbsp;!      !-- Project templates (if any)
    &nbsp;!-- Projects
    &nbsp;!      !-- &lt;project 1&gt;.plan
    &nbsp;!      !-- &lt;project 2&gt;.plan
    &nbsp;!      !-- etc
  </screen>
</para>
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