New Version of Key Account Management
Since 2019, many Merlin Project users have found the template for key account management very exciting. The template is constantly in the top 10 of our project management templates.
We also still use the template for our partners, special prospects & customers, as well as our service providers. However, over the last 5 years we have made some small but subtle changes to our system.
Let us show you these improvements. You can download the new template for free.
Read more...How to Write a Project Proposal?
A project proposal is a document that outlines the core values of your project and sells it to stakeholders. Put simply, it shows what the project is about, why it makes sense, what you want to achieve with it and how you will get there. Writing a project proposal is generally the first step in the project management process.
A project proposal can contain a list of activities or tasks that will be associated with the project. However, it does not go into as much detail as a project plan. Instead, the project proposal contains more marketing elements for the project.
Even if you have not established a suggestion scheme for projects in your company, there are many reasons why you should think about it:
- to win a new customer,
- to secure funding,
- to convince management
- to allocate resources to an initiative
- to have a working document for a detailed project proposal,
- and much more.
Welcome to adoc Studio
The time has finally come. Our new product adoc Studio is going into public beta testing!
Over the last two years, we have started a new project alongside Merlin Project. No, that's not quite right. We actually started it about 10 years ago, because that's how long we've been writing our manuals and all public documents in AsciiDoc.
Today we are introducing adoc Studio - our tool for all technical documents!
What is adoc Studio?
adoc Studio is a new, integrated writing environment for structured texts of all kinds. Use the full range of AsciiDoc - directly on your Mac, iPad and iPhone.
40 Years of Macintosh
A (My) Personal Review
It's that time again. It's the Apple Macintosh's birthday again. It's now its 40th birthday - a special anniversary. I don't like to admit it, but most of the time in history I have somehow used the computer, or not. But read for yourself.
Before the Macintosh
After Steve Wozniak's groundbreaking tinkering, which was introduced by and as the Apple Computer in 1976, Apple sold the Apple II very successfully from 1977. The second version, the Apple II+, was released when IBM introduced its PC in 1981. With more than a wink, Apple greeted the former typewriter manufacturer with a full-page advertisement.
But by then, an important step had already been taken: Steve Jobs visited the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) with a team for the first time in 1979 and was particularly impressed by one idea: Operating a graphical user interface with the mouse.
However, it would be another four years before the Lisa appeared as a mouse-operated computer in 1983. Although it offered groundbreaking functions such as the graphical interface and the drag & drop option, it remained commercially unsuccessful due to its high price of over $10,000.
Read more...The Key to Success in 2024: Strategic Planning
Learn Project Management with Merlin Project
In the last few weeks, it has once again become clear: The template for strategic planning is currently top-of-mind.
Of course, as we approach the end of the year, it's always time to think about the year ahead. That's why I also went into this in a targeted article in the blog. This year, a particularly large number of people have asked me about it.
You are welcome to use your plan from the previous year. It can be prepared quickly in three steps:
- Open the old project and duplicate it in the file menu & create a new document ID.
- Select the project line and delete the real values in the Edit menu.
- Set the start date of the project to 1-Jan-2024.
So here are a few more general thoughts on the subject ...
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