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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

Merlin Project: Where to Enter Travel Costs?

Merlin Project Support

You use Merlin Project on the Mac, iPad, or Merlin Project Express to schedule your projects and keep track of work, resources and cost? Then you already know where to check finance information for your various activities.

You need now to record travel costs and don't know where or how to enter them?

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Merlin Project 4.3.5 Is Released

Merlin Project

We have just released the version 4.3.5. This maintenance update is important for both Merlin Project and Merlin Server.

Use "Check for updates …" to download the new macOS versions.

The iOS version 4.3.5 will be available in the App Store soon.

We have also updated Merlin Project Express. The new versions will be provided in the Mac App Store or at SetApp.

Merlin Project on Mac, iPad and Apple Vision Pro

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