I've been working in Pro for over a year now and I really appreciate the flexibility of the "Project" concept. I am working for a city and I get a variety of projects to work on. Primarily, I create projects based on the requesting department or requesters name. Within the project I typically have multiple maps and layouts. Relating the maps to layouts is based on consistent naming conventions. So the map name is typically the same as the layout name. For example, a map named Ord. 1234 will have a layout named Ord. 1234 and so on. In the same project I may have a map named Zoning Maintenance, which I use for updates...
I am also starting to use Project templates that contain a Map with the primary layers symbolized and a typical 11x15 Layout with the essentials already there, such as the Map frame, North arrow, title, scale bar, and a couple of dynamic texts. This is a great time saver. As is Layout files.
As time goes on some of my projects have many maps and layouts. Having them available, but separated, in catalog makes it easy to locate things when needed. Providing I have given descriptive names to them.
I really want to hear more on how others are managing projects. Maybe because it is so flexible, I have been able to find any deep-dive information from ESRI on the topic of Project Management.
