Basecamp
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- jonatne
Who uses it?
Pros / cons?
Better alternatives?
- breadlegz0
its awesome...
depending on what you want to use it for though.
- Mellimelvin0
I used this for a while. The service is good, but you need a group of 5+ to make it worth your while/$$. I'm pretty organized via email client so this is a little redundant.
- akoni0
we just use a wiki, just as easy... especially confluence
- kinetic0
we use basecamp...it's pretty sick
i just wish they had the ability to prioritize tasks
- tasty0
we use @task at my job.
it's getting better now that we have a project manager that took the time to read up on it.
- olli1010
I've been using it for a few years - it's fantastic BUT...
1: If your clients are more "corporate-ish" and only understand Microsoft Project, you're fighting a major battle in trying to get them to adopt Basecamp.
2: It doesn't do GANTT charts and it's not supposed to. If you can live with that - you're set. It works great for Agile type situations.
3: It doesn't really work if you're planning to have the client or developers work through one person. It's really about everyone discussing and moving together as a team online. This means that the client WILL criticize designs as they are posted and speak directly to your team. That's what it does - if that scares you, it's not for you.
4: 37 Signals are a great company and I have a lot of respect for them but don't waste your time trying to convince them to add something you feel should be there. They do what they want and don't really care about customer feedback*. (care about reading it yes - implementing it, no)
Otherwise, it's good.
If Basecamp isn't really up to it for you - try Copper Project as well. It's also quite good.
The more people we get off MS Project, the better.
- dan53820
I use basecamp at work to manage a product design group in India. Must say its worked really good so far. It makes them accountable for time lines and deliverable's.
- arseni0
It's really good, use it all the time. My clients actually love that there's some tool they know keeps everyone organized :) It's also easy for me to add people to the project since i work with a lot of guys across the ocean.
On one project we use a combination of basecamp and trac. Trac is good for software development when you have a lot of bugs that need to be worked on by various people... every task is in a form of a ticket that's assigned to someone. And then we use basecamp for discussing design mock-ups.
- barbtastic0
pasting into this thread as it seems more appropriate... any advice or help would be appreciated :D
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how does basecamp work in terms of clients? do they also need to sign up and pay for accounts in order to assign tasks, or are they strictly read only? I can't find an answer to this seemingly basic question anywhere.
i'm freelance and would like to use something like this to manage all of my clients and projects, but the last thing i want to do ask as them ALL to sign up [and pay] for yet another thing to login to and check all of the time.
so... if i sign up and pay, can i only use basecamp with other basecamp users?