We've been using Basecamp Project Management Software for sometime now. Here are five reasons why we (and our clients love it.)
1. It's easy to use:
Whenever we receive a new survey implementation, we create a project on Basecamp and add our clients as participants in the tool. We've found that they begin using the software prolifically within 1 day.
2. It focuses on the heart of project management which is communication:
There are no fancy charts and no cumbersome features. But when it comes to project communication, almost all the modules enable members of the project team to get onto the same page. There's messaging, write-boarding, chat, milestones management and more. In short, no issue will fall through the cracks.
3. The pricing is sensible:
They don't charge for inactive projects but you can still access these projects after archiving them thus creating a valuable knowledge-management infrastructure.
Sure there are a lot many things that can be improved (like improving the application performance, having presence indication available throughout the application as opposed to showing who's online only inside the chat room, allowing for desktop / application sharing, allowing for private communication between two or more members from within and without the organization ...) But they've got the core features working fabulously.
We highly recommend it for your organization.
3 comments:
3 reasons why I dislike Basecamp:
- it's not a real project management tool. Project management is not only about communication. You need staff like Gantt charts for effective project planning.
- if a person is involved into 14 projects he gets 14 IDs
- Basecamp is not integrated with email, and my project management app is.
You can also try Manymoon, it's free:
http://www.manymoon.com
With Manymoon you can:
* Managed private and shared To Do Lists and Projects.
* Upload documents and add them to tasks and projects.
* Integrate with Google Docs and Google Calendar.
* Automatically convert emails into tasks.
* Twitter-like feature to let people know what you are working on.
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