Merlin 2.7.7 is available
Frank Blome on 29. July 2010
Today we published another maintenance update for Merlin and Merlin Server. Here are the changes.
Resolved Issues in Merlin
- In combined projects, the utilization view was not refreshing under some circumstances.
- The resource’s cost accrual setting “at start” did produce the same result as “prorated”.
- Start dates of linked projects were deletable via the project link inspector.
- In Merlin Web Sharing, the default time zone was not set to GMT, which resulted in wrong creation dates of elements.
- Fixed an issue in the licensing system for Merlin iPhone.
- The status attribute was not selectable from within the predicate editor for elements.
- The value for “Given Startmode” was not exported properly in CSV export.
- Some access rights on creating project files did not set correctly.
- The “Merlin Quick Guide” is now in French language as well.
- Some translation issues have been fixed.
Resolved Issues in Merlin Server
- Merlin Server brought an error message for port 7090 after some time of work.
- Merlin did hang on saving a master project with aliases on Merlin Server files.
- A crash could appear when all numbers of a port of a custom server were deleted.
Tags: Merlin, Merlin Server, Merlin Web, Release notes, Update
ProjectWizards Announces Merlin Training in NYC August 24-25!!!
Dave Prior on 15. July 2010
I’m very excited to be able to announce that we’ve got a class scheduled in New York City on August 24 and 25th. Frank Blome and I will be teaching the 2-day class together and we will cover how to manage projects using Merlin as well as some basic project management best practices.
We’ve limited the space to just a few in order to ensure we can spend as much time as possible with the folks who attend, so if you are interested in joining us, please check out the page we have set up for US Trainings (there will be more to come) and register as soon as possible.
Tags: Training, US Training
Will The New iPhone Change How PMs Work?
Dave Prior on 9. July 2010
Special Project Potion Interview with ProjectWizard’s Frank Illenberger
Tags: iPad, iPhone 4, Merlin iPhone, Project Potion, WWDC
Project management podcast…Catching up…
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 28. June 2010
In my last post I’ve mentioned our teem meeting in Frankfurt which went very well, but I somehow managed to miss blogging about the last episode of project potion; The video podcast of Bas de Baar and Dave Prior (President of ProjectWizards Inc).
Bas and Dave talk about diversity and pro or contras against using a simplified language when working in teams where some of the members need to use foreign languages.
But why making a short story long? (more…)
Successful meetings
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 24. June 2010
Returning from our ProjectWizards’ team meeting, which I feel was very successful, I happened to stumble upon this article: 10 top tips for successful meetings. The list is in my opinion complete. Is there however something you would like to add? We would love to get your comments.
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Photo: View from the window of our conference building showing the Main Plaza skyscraper (in the middle), back side of House of Literature (bottom left) and the famous Frankfurter skyscraper skyline (in the right) - Frankfurt on Main, Germany
Tags: Meetings
Greetings from Stateside!
Dave Prior on 17. June 2010
Since this is my first official blog posting as a member of ProjectWizards, I thought I would start out with something simple… the story of how I came to know Merlin, why I think it completely rocks, and why that might be relevant to the opening of an office in the U.S.
I should start out by saying that despite the fact that I am a long time Mac user, over the past 15 or so years, I’ve worked at a lot of companies that were completely standardized around windows. I’ve been the guy who brought his Mac in every day, pushed his company issued windows machine into the corner and got to work. I did this for a simple reason, I was faster, more efficient and just plain happier working on a mac. The one hitch for me was that since I was a project manager, I was more or less stuck with using a windows based project management application. (more…)
Tags: USA
WWDC 2010
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 10. June 2010
These are some of the photos we’ve got from our developers attending this year’s WWDC:
Does this sound like my parents went to Saint Francisco and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt? 
Not a fitting comparison if you ask me… We are very excited and looking forward to hearing from them upon their return. There is surely so much to tell about interesting new developments, attended workshops, new connections to other developers or the applications presented and how all this new knowledge and experience can influence Merlin’s further development.
More training and consulting services in US
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 9. June 2010
I have written in a previous post about our new American company ‘ProjectWizards Inc’.
Such great news let many questions arise and we thought it would be better to have them answered directly by Dave Prior himself, president of ProjectWizards Inc.
Dave, why would you say does ProjectWizards need an additional company in the US?
ProjectWizards has been helping people around the world manage projects through training and consulting services and, of course, Merlin. While ProjectWizards is a global organization, we’ve found that our clients in North America are looking for a more localized presence in support of Merlin and the other work we do. We also feel, that with the growth of Macintosh adoption in North America the community of project managers who are also Mac users will be experiencing significant growth and we want to be there to help them learn more about Merlin and how to use it make their projects successful.
There are a number of business reasons why it made more sense for us to start a separate US company rather than just open an office in the US. At the end of the day, it is about providing the best service to our clients and we felt that establishing a US based company was the best way to serve the North American market.
What does this change? Are there new support email addresses or new websites?
There are no changes for Merlin customers. The email addresses are still the same. Support can be addressed as always at en-support@merlin2.net and the sales department still reached over sales@projectwizards.net There are also no changes to the web site, which you can access and discover it at www.projectwizards.net
Can US users or prospects call you now?
Not yet, but we are checking different possibilities. Please stay tuned, we will post any news here in our blog as soon as we have an update on this.
Assuming I am a customer or prospect interested in trainings and consulting services. Who should I contact? ProjectWizards in Germany or USA?
Please contact whichever office is more convenient for you. If you live in the US or Canada, it may be easier for you to speak with someone who’s is also in North America. In this case just use our email address: contact@projectwizards.net. From within Europe and other parts of this small world, our office in Germany is looking forward to get in touch with you. Again, at the end of the day it does not matter who do you contact. If we realize there is a better or easier contact for you, we will let you know.
Great. Thanks Dave, welcome by the wizards 
Tags: Company, Consulting services, Training, USA
iPhone 4, Simply adorable
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 8. June 2010
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, really knows his profession. He really knows how to present* a piece of software or hardware and make you feel like you are watching the most successful blockbuster. He has an exact perception of how people love being part of something special. He understands how to create hardware which works but also manage to become cult. The amount of Apple users increase radically over the years. iPod was one of the products braking the clean cut between Mac and Windows Users. With the release of the iPod, almost everybody got to be an Apple user. Couple years ago you were nothing if you would jog without an iPod nano**.
Yesterday’s keynote on the WWDC 2010 didn’t came as a surprise, but still, (more…)
Tags: iPhone OS, Merlin iPhone, WWDC
3… 2… 1… we have liftoff!
Vicky Stamatopoulou on 1. June 2010
In our last post, we’ve told you we have a surprise for our North American users. Are you curious what would that be? Don’t worry, the waiting is finally over and we are so excited, we can reveal the good news:
Today (on June 1st, 2010) ProjectWizards founded a new company based in the USA; ProjectWizards Inc.
Why are these great news, and how does this benefits North Americans?
As you may already now, ProjectWizards is based in Germany and Merlin is developed over there. The US based company is found to be closer to our american customers and provide them a wide rage of services in native language. The perfect understanding of the US markets can only be given by Americans, not Germans. Therefore we started looking for the right person to lead our business in the States for a long time ago and with Dave Prior, we simply knew, we had a perfect deal!
Dave is a long time project manager and very active tech / IT consultant. Beside the fact that he is a Mac user, he is also a Merlin user since the days of version 1. This profile is extended by his leading skills and the fact he is extremely service oriented. This makes him the perfect match for ProjectWizards Inc.
Exciting times start just now… 3 2 1 we have liftoff!
Tags: Announcement, Company, Dave Prior, USA
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