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5 Questions about Project Management
with Stephan List

Coffee Talk

Stephan List

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 Stephan List. He is a business consultant and executive coach since 1991. His main focus lies on productivity. He regularly shares his knowledge of more than 20 years of business and project experience on his personal Tool Blog.

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Posted by Paul Henkel on January 12th, 2018 under Project Management
Tags: 5 questions

Using Guest Access: How to Restrict Access
of Multiple Users to Read-Only

Gastzugang: How to Use Guest Access in Merlin Project
Merlin Project Support

With Merlin Project you have an easy way to restrict access of multiple users to read-only. A step-by-step guide.

If you share project files with various project stakeholders, you've probably already used the ,Is User' option on your resources. And in doing so, you've maybe defined individual permissions for each user, or restricted the access to read-only for some.

Is there an easier way to restrict access of multiple users to read-only?

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Posted by Peter Meier on January 10th, 2018 under Products
Tags: merlin-project support macOS

5 Questions about Project Management
with Stefan Hagen

Coffee Talk

Stefan Hagen

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 new interview series "5 questions about project management". To be fast, intense and refreshing like a good cup of coffee.

We start our coffee talks with Stefan Hagen. He is a business consultant and project manager since 2001 and a teacher at University of Applied Science Vorarlberg since 2004. He shares his opinions about trends and topics concerning project management and innovation on his personal PM Blog and today with us.

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

Waterfall Model in Project Management:
Example & Application

Simple Waterfall Project Management Template

In project management, some strange terms appear when you are looking for a methodology suitable for your team: critical path, Scrum, PMBOK, Six Sigma etc. Besides all these terms, you have certainly heard of the waterfall project management method.

In this guide you will learn how the waterfall method uses a sequential process to simplify project management and how you can implement aspects of this method in your own work.

What Is The Waterfall Model in Project Management?
Project Phases in The Waterfall Model - An Example
Advantages and Disadvantages of The Waterfall Model
For Which Projects is The Waterfall Model Suitable?
Agile Waterfall Is No Swearword - Thanks to Merlin Project

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Posted by Stefanie Blome on January 4th, 2018 under Project Management
Tags: waterfall-model

Happy Holidays

Our Offices Will Be Closed for Christmas

What an eventful year for ProjectWizards and Merlin Project. It's time to take a short break. We will close our offices for the holidays but you can still reach us for urgent support inquiries.

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Posted by Paul Henkel on December 20th, 2017 under Internal
Tags: greetings

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