Hi, I am Perri Pappas and I just started my internship by ProjectWizards. It was the name of the software that attracted my attention at first, but then it struck me as I saw the screenshots of the product and read the philosophy behind it on the site of the company. This is the place for me.

Let’s face it. We Greeks are not very famous for our organization talent, neither for our ability of planing our work and getting it done just in time. Of course, we get our projects done someday. Maybe not in the planed time, maybe not in the planed budget, but we do manage to realize them somehow. So why worrying?

Well, one thing about me, which is not very Greek I have to admit, is my desire to plan. I need a structure for doing things. I like to define the necessary steps. I find it useful to have a rough impression of how long they will take to get realized, to be able to delegate them in order to have the work done quicker, to know which steps are preceding, and which resulting. I tend to keep track of the current state mentally and I don’t like shortage in material or lack of resources crossing my plans.

So I like to plan and my boss had a benefit out of my characteristic so far, but why handle so much information mentally when there are loads of project management software available? If the software supports you just right, you save money, time and improve your reputation among your competitors due to your reliable planing.

Searching in the internet, I came up with Merlin. I am sure it can help me in organizing our projects. From what I can see, from the quick guides I could read, it is “thinking” the way I do. It knows which compounds I consider when I am planing, calculates with time, work and budget, supports me doing reports, which I would otherwise have to do manually and brings throughout its intuitive user interface a bit of magic in my project planing working procedures.

So of course I have applied for the internship. My boss is really excited in getting all the possibilities of Merlin “work” for him, as soon as  I return. I am excited to and will be reporting from time to time how I am proceeding.

Bye bye Greece, hello world, ProjectWizards here I am 🙂