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Welcome to The New Merlin Project Forum!

After we buried the Google forum with Merlin version 2 a long time ago, our focus was on Xing and LinkedIn until now. Now that Xing has cancelled its forum without replacement and the forum on LinkedIn is not really alive, we have decided to start our own forum again.

The new forum provides a user-friendly platform where Merlin Project users can network with each other and share knowledge. Ask questions, give suggestions and learn from other experienced users. All of this is free of charge, of course!

The new forum is easy to navigate and offers a variety of features, including a search function that allows you to quickly find the answers to your questions. In addition, you can personalize your profile, track your posts, and connect directly with other users.

We look forward to bringing our community even closer together with this new forum and providing you with more comprehensive support and resources. Feel free to drop by and become part of an ever-growing community!

Friday Again Already?

In the last time it happens again regularly that I ask myself at the latest on Friday around noon the question; "Friday noon, where is this week already again"? Yes, I really ask myself this question in this form. And not as the universally quoted TGIF - "Thank God is Friday"; because I like to work! So my motto is IIFRA - "Is it Friday really again?" ;-)

So now I'm taking some time to review selected topics of the last week. Maybe I'll be able to slow down the pace a bit... or what's the consultant term for that: "deceleration".

PM Camp Hamburg

Finally, the preparations for the „biggest class reunion of German-speaking project managers" (I like to quote myself) are underway. After a few attempts sabotaged by Covid-19, a new orga team has now been found, which has already found a place and a date:

On May 19 and 20, 2023, the PM Camp will
take place on the premises of ISM Hamburg.

More details will follow very soon. Until then, block the date in your schedule. I will definitely be there!

Wizards Web Woche – KW 15

Was uns in dieser Woche besonderes auffiel

Das Internet, unendliche Weiten. Wir befinden uns auf einer permanenten Wissensreise und entdecken immer wieder Neues, aber auch Altes neu. In unserem Fokus sind dabei Themen rund um das Management – insbesondere von Projekten, Apple und seine Hardware wie auch Software, aber auch spezielles wie Softwareentwicklung oder Softwarevertrieb. Wir wählen Webseiten sehr subjektiv und meistens im Rahmen unserer Mission aus.

In dieser Woche gibt es wieder eine Sonderausgabe! Nach eine gefühlten Ewigkeit traf sich der harte Kern der PM-Camp-Szene auf einen #PMWhisky, wenn auch nur via Zoom. Wir stellen heute einige Teilnehmer und Ihre Projekte vor.

• PRC Production Consult
  Für Ralf Pirle liegen #PMfriends und #PMCamp für die Projektmanagement-Community am Herzen, seinen Lebensunterhalt verdient er mit Projekten in der Telekommunikation.

• Projektmanager:in werden
  Bernhard Schloß hat einen umfangreicher PM-Kurs auf LinkedIn Learning. Dieser ist sogar für alle Nutzer kostenlos freigeschaltet.

• pro accessio
  Kai Altenfelder ist methodisch sattelfest und freut sich mit PM-Praktikern auf Augenhöhe austauschen zu können. Die Kontakte bei einem Glas Whisky zu pflegen, macht ihm dazu noch Spaß.

• Falk Schmidt
  Falk Schmidt "macht Dinge mit #digital und #Datenschutz". Er ist als Datenschutzbeauftragter leidenschaftlicher Verfechter der Privatsphäre auch derer, die ihrer Meinung nach nichts zu verbergen haben, und sorgt als Projektberater dafür, durch Digitalisierung vom Mittelstand bis zum Konzern die Welt vom Papier zu befreien. Und selbstverständlich gehört Merlin zum Werkzeugkasten :-)

• Agathe hilft
  "Agathe hilft" ist eine Initiative, die kleinen gemeinnützigen NGOs professionelles agiles Coaching auf ehrenamtlicher Basis anbietet. Die Projektunterstützer sind alles erfahrene Coaches, die sich in der Initiative ehrenamtlich engagieren. Die Initiative ist aus einem Projekt der Deutschen Umwelthilfe heraus entstanden.

Wizards Web Week – week 14

What Particularly Caught Our Eye

The Internet, endless expanses. We are on a permanent knowledge journey and always discover new things, but also old things anew. In our focus are topics around management - especially of projects, Apple and its hardware as well as software, but also special like software development or software distribution. We choose websites very subjectively and mostly in the context of our mission.

• Apple's Find My app officially works with non-Apple devices
  The first new compatible products will arrive next week.

• MacBook and iPad production delayed as supply crunch hits Apple
  US tech giant's headaches suggest even worse chip shortages lie ahead

• M87’s Black Hole
  Astronomers Image Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Black Hole

• Competitive advantage with Project Management
  Good project management in your company gives you a great advantage over your competitors.

Wizards Web Week – week 12

What Particularly Caught Our Eye

The Internet, endless expanses. We are on a permanent knowledge journey and always discover new things, but also old things anew. In our focus are topics around management - especially of projects, Apple and its hardware as well as software, but also special like software development or software distribution. We choose websites very subjectively and mostly in the context of our mission.

• How retailers can (could) team up to market themselves
  Holger Zimmermann shows how a package plus retail store could secure the future for retailers and summarizes the klever for many retailers. (German text)

• Agility? We tried it! Does not work!
  A brilliant series of articles (here part 1) by Heiko Bartlog.

• 20 years of Mac OS X
  An interesting retrospective

• Building Gantt charts with Markdown
  A great gimmick with Markdown files.

• Have I been pwned?
  Last week some security breaches were reported again. Here is a contact point for verification.