Merlin Project: Highlight Dependencies
You plan your projects with Merlin Project? Then you already know how to add, schedule and link activities by dependencies. When ever an activity requires another one before it can start or needs to run parallel to another, or even start after a buffer, planing by dependencies saves you time in getting your schedule done. If one activity drives one or more activities simply link them together. Less dates you enter, the more Merlin Project can help you by calculating the project timeline.
You need to overview the predecessors of a specific activity to understand why it cannot be planned earlier? Or do you want to identify successors benefiting from assigning more resources early on in a chain of activities?
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Read more...Merlin Project: Collaborate on Project Files using Separate Views
You plan your projects with Merlin Project? Your team shares project files editing at the same time while our patented technology MagicSync keeps all data in sync?
Than you probably wondered, why views also stay in sync. How to proceed, if any team member working on the project files does not want a view to be in sync with someone else?
Read more...iCloud Drive Shared Folders in macOS Monterey
iCloud Drive includes a feature for sharing content with others since macOS Big Sur and iOS/iPadOS 14, which is very handy and great for collaborating on projects from Merlin Project. In macOS Monterey, sharing via iCloud Drive has gotten even better.
Shared Files in iCloud Drive
In Monterey, Apple has re-designed the iCloud Drive Finder view.
In the sidebar of any Finder window, under the iCloud menu item there is still the iCloud Drive entry.
In it, you'll find many folders of different apps and you can insert your own folders or files to access them conveniently from other private devices. Read more...
Merlin Project: Collaborate on Project Files with iCloud Drive in Your Team
You plan your projects with Merlin Project? Typically, your project goes through various stages from start to finish. So you start your project with conception and initiation, proceed in defining and planning it. Then launch its execution, check on its performance and control it until its closure.
In a single-user situation, you as a project manager use Merlin Project to take care of things like scope, prerequisites, define the required work packages, add activities, assign them to available resources, request budget and track expected cost and scheduling.
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