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Stay Ahead of Your Projects with Energy Boards

Energy Board Overview

Managing your energy is just as important as managing your time. With the Energy Board in Merlin Project, you can match your tasks to your energy levels, ensuring that you work smarter, not harder. Let’s look at how it works, why it’s effective, and how to set one up in Merlin Project.

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Posted by Marvin Blome on January 10th, 2025 under Project Management
Tags: kanban energy-boards task-priority

Agile Methods in Project Management

Application Examples and Success Stories

In the world of project management, agility has become a key concept that helps organizations adapt to the ever-changing demands of the market and achieve more effective results. Agile methods such as Scrum, Kanban and Lean offer flexible approaches to managing projects that can be used successfully, especially in dynamic environments. In the following, we take a closer look at some application examples and success stories of these agile methods.

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Posted by Stefanie Blome on June 14th, 2024 under Project Management
Tags: scrum kanban lean agile

Merlin Project: Kanban with Priorities

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You plan your projects with Merlin Project? Then you already know that you can add your project activities and work with them in various views. Typically, you'll use a work breakdown structure with Gantt chart, when you are interested in the scheduling of your project. Many of our users choose a Kanban board, for a more visual approach and focus on the tasks and their current status.

In a long project with many activities, producing a long backlog list on the Kanban board might be overwhelming and even contra productive. Ideally you'll want to offer and show to your team, only those jobs important for the next step towards completion of your project.

In the following, we will show you, how you can filter activities and view your Kanban board by priority, to ensure you are not overwhelming your team and taking care of significant activities first.

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Project Management at Your Fingertips

Merlin Project Is Now Available on the iPad

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For 15 years, Merlin Project has been at the heart of all project managers on the Mac. Now with the new version we also make your iPad a powerful project tool.

Apple's magic tablet attracts everyone. Whether you're holding it up like a piece of paper in a meeting, appreciating its light weight when travelling, or using it as an intuitive tool and letting your fingers fly over its glass: Everyone loves their iPad. So it was obvious for us to prepare our favorite tool for the next decade. Now you have your projects within reach: Move Gantt bars and Kanban cards with just one finger and effortlessly wipe through large project plans. Experience all the powerful Merlin Project features on your iPad.

Assignments in Merlin Project on the iPad
Kanban Boards in Merlin Project on the iPad
Mindmaps in Merlin Project on the iPad

Our patented MagicSync synchronizes all project data with all devices. If your tablet is already in the meeting room, but you want to make a last, quick change, this is no problem. Modify it on the Mac – by the time you're in the meeting, everything's synchronized.

But Merlin Project doesn't just run on your iPad. On iPhone, it displays all project content in portrait format as compact lists and shows a dynamic Gantt chart in landscape format.

Try Merlin Project for iPad free for 30 days. The price for the monthly subscription is USD/EUR 6.99, the annual subscription is USD/EUR 69.99.

The new Merlin Project for iPad replaces the previous Merlin Project Go. If you have already subscribed, you will automatically receive the new version at the old price.

Posted by Frank Blome on March 7th, 2019 under Products
Tags: merlin-project iOS macOS mind map kanban

Start of the Public Beta for Merlin Project on the iPad

News about Merlin Project

Update: The beta test has now been completed and the iPad app Merlin Project has been released for productive use.

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Posted by Frank Blome on February 19th, 2019 under Products
Tags: merlin-project iOS macOS mind map kanban

Merlin Project on the Mac and iPad

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