My Conclusion about the ProjectWizards Workation

At the end of July, I reported here that we would be traveling to Leeuwarden in the Netherlands with the entire ProjectWizards team for a workation. Now that we've been back for a few days, it's time to summarize our time together.

Our boss, Frank Blome, sent a rough plan for the workation to everyone before they arrived:

1. We meet every morning at 9:00 a.m. at breakfast and discuss, who is planning which activities for the day.

2. A table has been reserved for dinner in the evening. Everyone is invited to join.

3. Have fun and enjoy yourselves.

Workation - a Different Form of Collaboration

Anyone who knows and follows us is aware that we work remotely here at ProjectWizards, letting everyone choose their favorite place to work from. We only gather once a quarter for 1- or 2-day team meetings somewhere in Germany.

For our 20th anniversary of Merlin Project this year, we decided to have a longer meeting, a Workation.

40 Years of Macintosh
A (My) Personal Review

It's that time again. It's the Apple Macintosh's birthday again. It's now its 40th birthday - a special anniversary. I don't like to admit it, but most of the time in history I have somehow used the computer, or not. But read for yourself.

Before the Macintosh

After Steve Wozniak's groundbreaking tinkering, which was introduced by and as the Apple Computer in 1976, Apple sold the Apple II very successfully from 1977. The second version, the Apple II+, was released when IBM introduced its PC in 1981. With more than a wink, Apple greeted the former typewriter manufacturer with a full-page advertisement.

But by then, an important step had already been taken: Steve Jobs visited the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) with a team for the first time in 1979 and was particularly impressed by one idea: Operating a graphical user interface with the mouse.

However, it would be another four years before the Lisa appeared as a mouse-operated computer in 1983. Although it offered groundbreaking functions such as the graphical interface and the drag & drop option, it remained commercially unsuccessful due to its high price of over $10,000.

The Perfect Christmas Tree -
My Christmas Project

The festive time of year is here - and with it the annual search for the perfect Christmas tree. But wait a minute! Have you ever thought of tree-buying not just as a festive ritual but as a project? Here are a few fun parallels between the Christmas tree hunt and our beloved project management:

Discuss blog articles in the forum

The new forum has been online for a few months now and is well received by you. Thank you for your interest and active participation.

Today we are announcing a new feature that should add even more value to the forum. Since July, we have been linking new articles from the blog to our forum. This gives you the opportunity to ask specific questions, but also to discuss blog articles and their topics with us and others.

Of course, this also applies to older blog articles that are not yet linked in the forum. Just start a new discussion on the topic you want to talk about with others. You can simply drag and drop the link to the blog article in question.

If you have any questions about how to use the forum, you may find the following articles summarized under the About the Forum tag helpful. But of course you are also welcome to ask further questions directly in the individual posts.