Understanding and Resolving Scheduling Conflict: Dependency Order Is Violated
From time to time we receive in support following question: Why does Merlin show some text or dependency lines in red? These are rows with scheduling conflicts. Just hover with the mouse over a red colored text. Merlin …
BlogUnderstanding and Resolving Scheduling Conflict: Expected Work Exceeds Given Value
From time to time we receive in support following question: Why does Merlin show some text and durations in orange? These are rows with weak scheduling conflicts. Just hover with the mouse over an orange colored text. …
BlogMerlin Project Solves Your Problem in Resource Deployment Planning
The problem is as old as there are projects. Someone sat down and made a perfect plan for the next weeks and months, the resources were used and optimized so that nobody has idle anymore and no overloads occur. Everyone …
BlogE-Mails for Project Managers
Yesterday was another one of those days… 250 e-mails in my inbox. Yes, in one day! Of course 75% of it was spam. And even if you use Mail.app's spam filter – which actually works very well – you will always find that a …
BlogMerlin Project: Overtime Work
You use Merlin Project to plan your projects? Then you already know how to define activities by work, duration, or a combination of both. What if you need to record overtime? This is how to proceed: Record overtime work …
BlogMerlin Project: Hide Subprojects From Some Users
You use Merlin Project to plan your projects and use sub-projects? Then you already know that your changes within the subproject are also visible in the combined document. But what if there are subprojects that not …
BlogKanban in Organizations Part II
This article provides managers in service companies with an insight into how to use the Kanban method to tackle organizational difficulties. In the previous article Kanban in Organizations Part I you got to know the …
BlogHammock Task in Merlin Project
You use Merlin Project to plan your projects? Then you already know how to schedule activities by work or duration and dependencies. What if you need a Hammock task? The start and end date of a hammock activity (also …
BlogConflicts
You use Merlin Project to plan your projects? Then you already know how to insert activities, schedule them and assign resources. Merlin Project visualizes your planning and warns you if it identifies any scheduling …
BlogMerlin Project: Use Customized Assignments Multiple Times
You use Merlin Project to plan your projects? Then you already know how to add resources and customize assignments. Can you use customized assignments multiple times? Yes! This is how it works. The example Create a new …
