MacWorld 2010, commented by Dave Prior
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 23. February 2010
In the latest Project Potion episode of Bas De Baar and Dave Prior, Dave Prior comments his visit to the MacWorld, the outcome of his intention to meet up with other PMs, and some new products he found there.
Our favourite quote of the episode is…
And I went out there with the guys of ProjectWizards, that is the company which makes Merlin, which is for my money, the best Project Management software on mac, because it is the only one that lets you enter separate values for work and duration, which to me is a huge deal being as I am a bit of a geek when it comes to making my project plans.
Enjoy the episode, there is so much more PM relevant information to find there. It is awesome! Watch it until the end, and you will know why we call it so 
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Macworld 2010, photo impressions
Frank Blome on 14. February 2010
Welcome to MacWord 2010…
Inside the expo…
Macworld expo
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 9. February 2010
Macworld Expo kicked off today and even though Merlin is not presented in a booth our CEO, Frank Blome, is very busy in San Francisco taking with PMs from all over the world and doing last minute preparations for the Merlin co-sponsored ‘Cirque du Mac’ party.
We have read Jeff Gamlet’s post at the Mac Observer about the importance or unimportance of Apple’s absence at the conference. The author points out that:
Macworld Expo is about interacting with your colleagues, friends, session instructors and the companies that make the products we buy.
So it is an Expo for consumers and a special event for everyone taking place.
That’s all very nice and cool, but what we find most interesting is your opinion.
How important is Apple’s presence for you and how does it influence your decision whether to visit the expo or not?
Macworld PM Meetup?
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 3. February 2010
Are you a PM and you are going to the Macworld? Our friend Dave Prior mentions in his blog that he would you like to meet up with you. Just send him an email with the words ‘Macworld PM Meetup’ as a first contact.
In case you’ve missed Dave Prior’s and Bas de Baar’s last Project Potion episode here you are. Enjoy:
Cirque du Mac, Are you invited?
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 25. January 2010
Merlin is co-sponsoring ‘Cirque du Mac’. One of the best parties at Macworld…
…with real Mac people playing real live music, roaming clowns, tattoo artists and a Videator-powered light. Fancy a peek of previous years? Sure, there are plenty of videos available in the internet. Check here, here or here.
You cannot buy any tickets for this cult party. You may enter your ticket request online though and if it gets accepted you will receive an email.
Do you feel lucky? Join the mac observer’s Cirque du Mac 7.0 contest and hopefully win a pair of tickets.
You consider entering your ticket request and wait? We recommend you should try both ways!
Good luck!
Tags: Contest
Hello 2010, bye bye 2009!
Frank Blome on 4. January 2010
One lays a bit longer in bed at Christmas, and finds the new year already in full swing when awaking. But wait. Our hibernation was not that deep, we simply granted ourselves a short break. 2009 was after all the most active year in our young history.
Directly on its begin, January 2009, we were in the Macworld and presented Merlin iPhone to the interested visitors.
In February 2009 the beta test of Merlin 2.7 started containing the new version of Merlin Web. A Merlin Twitter presence was also created, with over 750 followers meanwhile.
Tags: App Store, Communication, Merlin, Merlin iPhone, Merlin Server, Merlin Web, Snow Leopard, Story, Team
Dave Prior: PM combining the best of two worlds
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 21. December 2009
Richard Joerges, our colleague from the German blog, had the chance talking with Dave Prior and wrote a very interesting post here.
In case you happen not to know Dave Prior already, Dave is a PM for the past 15 years and has been volunteering for PMI since 2002. He has been on the board of the IT&T SIG since 2003 and was the Chair during 2008. Now serving out his term as Past Chair, Dave is also senior consultant at Valtech in the Transformation Services group – which helps companies who want to migrate to Agile.
Tags: Scrum
Meeting at Macworld
Frank Blome on 25. November 2007
Hi folks,
As you probably realized, the Macworld Conference & Expo will again take place in January. Of course ProjectWizards this time will be there as well. You will find us in the South Hall at booth 2638.
I am writing to you, to start the discussion about another “The Mac Project Manager’s Get Together”. The last one in Atlanta, GA during the PMI Congress was very funny and we decided to do another one immediately!
So, the Macworld in San Francisco is a very good opportunity for the “TMPMGT #2″, isn’t it? What do you think about it? Discuss this at our Google Groop
Macworld Update
Administrator on 23. January 2007
Back from the Macworld in San Francisco our team is exhausted but exhilarated. Before they went off to look after their jet lag, they did manage to give us a nice update and share a few photographs.
We thought we’d share a bit of the news and the pictures with you too. The visitors to our booth were generally very pleased with the new generation of Merlin – Merlin 2. Many of these were looking for a real professional project management tool and after checking out many of the other applications offered at the Macworld, they were convinced that Merlin 2 was unbeatable on the Mac OS X. That of course, pleased our developers.
Our team was able to interact one on one with many visitors and users to the booth. This offered a helpful platform to gather some very valuable feedback. Ideas, thoughts, feature requests were all compiled religiously by our team and these are now being discussed in great detail in out Merlin developer circle.
The Merlin users who took time to visit our booth also complimented the superb and competent support offered by the Merlin Support Team. Many mentioned that this is often not always the case. They were especially pleased with the super fast service and responses they got. In the future too our support will keep up the high quality of service.
All in all the Macworld was such a huge success that The Boss booked a booth for the Macworld 2008 right there.
Until then if you are looking for a project management software, download Merlin’s demo version here and give it a try yourself.
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