Vicky Stamatopoulou on 11. March 2010
We have submitted the next update for Merlin on the iPhone to the App Store and wait for its approval.
It will carry the version number 1.0.4 and includes the following issue fixes:
We hope Apple approves the new update of Merlin iPhone quickly, and it is soon available in the App Store for download.
Update: The update 1.0.4 is now available in the App Store and recommended for all Merlin iPhone 1.0.3 users.
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 10. March 2010
How one can manage to accomplish in a project best possible performance, productivity and efficiency at once? Is it a realistic goal in a real world, on real life conditions? Is it better to transit as times change from efficiency to productivity? Which PM methods help the most while trying to do so? Is it Agile? Questions over questions…
We would love to read your answers in the comments.
Tags: Efficiency, Performance, Productivity
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 9. March 2010
Ch-cha-changes… This is to inform you that the name of our blog ‘MacPM.net‘ as shown in the navigation menus of our website http://www.projectwizards.net/en is now ‘News’. Please note that only the name changes, the URL remains the same. The contents of our MacPM.net blog for Project Management with Merlin on Mac OS X remain. We will keep you posted in the usual frequency.
John Kranz on 9. March 2010
If you are publishing Merlin projects from a computer that has a dynamically generated IP address, this can cause problems for your users already having received the project URLs and use in the meanwhile obsolete IPs to access the projects. This situation easily occurs, as the IP address of your router changes upon re-connecting to your internet provider.
In this case the actual project URLs will fall out of sync with the URL and IP address that Merlin has originally published. Fortunately, there is a solution readily at hand thanks to the free service provided by DynDNS.org that allows you to create a static host name that can be used instead.
Tags: DynDNS, Merlin 101, Merlin Web
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 9. March 2010
Frank Blome, our CEO, was interviewed by Richard Joerges at the CeBit, on the second day of the trade show.
He was asked for a resumé to the CeBIT so far and whether he sees any current trends in the Project Management.
Frank talks about Windows based PMs thinking about switching to the Mac platform, traditional project management, Agile and Scrum. Enjoy the interview
Tags: Agile, CeBit, Scrum, Traditional Project Management
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 8. March 2010
This is a tip of our CEO, Frank Blome, as discussed at the CeBIT 2010 and published on our German MacPM blog:
Supposedly you plan an activity of 5 days work to be accomplished in the duration of 10 days. As an experienced PM and Merlin user you create the activity in your project as follows:
This results to a 50% utilization for the assigned resource
Tags: Actuals, Documenting actual work, Merlin, Merlin 101, Utilization
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 4. March 2010

Under a quality system, if it wasn’t documented (according to your own rules), IT NEVER HAPPENED!
Found in a post about Managing Projects in the Medical Device Marketplace
My thoughts in random order:
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 3. March 2010
Why is it that we seek a silver bullet to magically solve all of our problems?
Found here