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5 Questions about Project Management
with Jeff Haynor

Coffee Talk

Jeff Haynor

Before we leave the office for the weekend, we stop for a quick coffee talk with our project management colleagues to chat about their best practices. Well, not literally, but that's how we designed our interview series "5 questions about project management". To be fast, intense and refreshing like a good cup of coffee.

Today, we’ll talk to Jeff Haynor. He is the CIO of Orion Integrated Information Technology which provides Mac business solutions for customer relationship management and project management. Jeff is known in the Apple Community as the Apple Store Liaison for Daylite CRM & Productivity Suite and Merlin Project.

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Posted by Paul Henkel on March 30th, 2018 under Project Management
Tags: 5 questions

Merlin Project: One File, More Users

Merlin Project Support

You are working with Merlin Project in a team and need to edit the same file?

If so, you know that when you edit for example your data in the 'Work breakdown' and another user is changing to the 'Resources' view, your application will also synchronize the view and show the 'Resources'.

How to work in a team using a shared project file and thereby still have the option of independent views?

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Posted by Peter Meier on March 28th, 2018 under Products
Tags: merlin-project support views macOS

What Is the Difference Between Work Breakdown Structure, Project Plan and Project Schedule?

Net plan in Merlin Project

If you are new to project methodologies, you are confronted with lots of seemingly similar terms and definitions. What is, for instance, the difference between a work breakdown structure, a project plan and a project schedule? Let's resolve the confusion.

Quickly navigate to your desired method:
Work breakdown structure (WBS)
Project Schedule
Project Plan

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Posted by Paul Henkel on March 26th, 2018 under Project Management
Tags: agile scrum kanban

5 Questions about Project Management
with Frank Blome

Coffee Talk

Frank Blome

Before we leave the office for the weekend, we stop for a quick coffee talk with our project management colleagues to chat about their best practices. Well, not literally, but that's how we designed our interview series "5 questions about project management". To be fast, intense and refreshing like a good cup of coffee.

Today, we’ll remain among our own because many readers asked us what our answers to the weekly five questions were. So we handed the questions to our CEO and founder Frank Blome. He has several decades of experience as a project manager and he is also the master of our inhouse projects.

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Posted by Paul Henkel on March 23rd, 2018 under Project Management
Tags: 5 questions

5 Questions about Project Management
with Brian Gregory

Coffee Talk

Brian Gregory

Before we leave the office for the weekend, we stop for a quick coffee talk with our project management colleagues to chat about their best practices. Well, not literally, but that's how we designed our interview series "5 questions about project management". To be fast, intense and refreshing like a good cup of coffee.

Today, we’ll talk with Brian Gregory, MD. He is an anesthesiologist who turned project manager specialized in medical informatics. More than a decade ago, he founded ORGTimes, a company dedicated to designing, implementing and evaluating clinical workflows.

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Posted by Paul Henkel on March 16th, 2018 under Project Management
Tags: 5 questions

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