Merlin Project 4 beta is available!

We have waited a long time for this moment, and now things can really get started. Merlin Server and Merlin Project Go are ready for public beta testing.

All visitors who registered at our ProjectWizards newsletter where among the first who got the chance to try out our new software. What in detail have beed published? Continue reading

Merlin Server and Merlin Project Go – State of the Union

Frank Blome
CEO of ProjectWizards

…I am deviating from my usual principle of not talking about products that have not been released yet and revealing a bit about the status of the project as well as several functions.

 

Frank Blome reveals facts, screens and functionality planned for Merlin Server and the Merlin Project Go for iOS. Read more on the ProjectWizards.net site.

Merlin iOS app – enter actuals to record progress and update your Merlin projects

When managing a project with Merlin on your Mac you create your tasks and assign them to your resources. As your resources work on their tasks, you as a PM usually update your Merlin project by entering actual values and record progress.


Merlin user on an iOS device:

As a Merlin user editing a shared Merlin project on the iOS device with Merlin iOS app, you tap the i button of a task, switch to the ‘Actuals‘ and tap on ‘Edit‘… Depending on what you want to log, you enter actuals in ‘percentage‘ or ‘absolute‘ mode.


    Use percentage, when the total work expected for this task matches the planned entry. Means, you entered 3 planned days, you expect the task to be done within 3 planned days, and have currently a 25% progress to record.

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    Use absolute, when the total work expected for this task does not match the planned entry. Means, you had 5 planned days, but after having worked for 4 days onto this task you realize that it really needs 3 more days.

    If the task is completed, enter the correct amount of actual work for the task, for example 7 days in the ‘normal‘ field and enter 0 days in the ‘remaining work’ field.

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Merlin user on Mac update their progress thus.

 

 

25 Incredibly Useful iPad Applications

Check out Andrea McDougal’s blog post on 25 Incredibly Useful iPad Apps at Masters in Project Management

The site is geared towards helping people find a great graduate program for PM (cough – University of Texas at Dallas – cough), but her recent blog post on iPad apps has some great ideas in it.

(And Merlin made the top of the list) Continue reading