Basecamp (free; paid subscriptions from $20 per month) is the benchmark of free online project management suites. If your teams need to get off email and get back to work in a collaborative and well-structured environment, send them Basecamp forthwith. The intuitive Web-based system couldn't be easier to use, and, while any business can get started with a free account ASAP, many will soon thereafter pay the very reasonable price (starting at $20 per month flat fee, regardless of the number of users) to upgrade to a paid account, where Basecamp gives you a few (but crucial) additional features.
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The Basics of Basecamp
For companies that use Basecamp, the project management Web portal acts as the central place where all activity around a project occurs. Each user?and they can be internal to the company or an outside partner?has her own login credentials, profile, and dashboard that shows only information that's relevant to her. The free version of Basecamp limits organizations to only being able to create one single project, and that's a pretty strict limitation (if you only have one project, you probably don't need a project management tool). In my mind, the free account should be seen as a way to test the waters, give users a taste of how Basecamp works, so they can grasp its value and buy into a subscription quickly.
Inside Basecamp, managers or project leads can create a "project" and manage all the work associated with it, from who should have access to the information contained therein to assets uploaded to the project space, such as design comps or guidelines from stakeholders.
The real beauty of Basecamp is the centralization. All discussions, information-dissemination, scheduling, task-assigning, and questions live alongside the project.
To stay abreast of what's happening with a project, users log into Basecamp and immediately get the full story of its progress. Users do have the option to be alerted by email of activity they choose, such as when comments appear on an open discussion, or when someone newly starts a discussions, or when someone completes a task that you assigned them. These email alerts let team members who aren't accustomed to using an online management tool stay connected even if they don't log in.
Online project management software tends to cleave in two: the actual project management (milestones and tasks), and the online communication between team members, freelancers, and vendors (messages and whiteboards). Basecamp doesn't break this mold. Instead, it differentiates itself by its ease of use and compatibility with external technologies.
What's Inside?
Basecamp's primary view is called the dashboard. Dashboards have become more prevalent across online tools (think social networking websites), and anyone new to PM software will quickly see Basecamp's dashboard as being similar to a Facebook feed. Across the board, Basecamp feels comfortable in this way. It's similar to other tools most people already know and use.
The dashboard page gives you information about everything that's changed in a project and is relevant to you?in other words, you only see information about projects to which you have been invited by the project manager. The restrictions Basecamp provides PMs regarding other users are thorough.
Activity on the dashboard sorts reverse-chronologically by date, so the most recent activity surfaces at the top.
Along the top of the Web interface are tabs for Projects, Calendar, Everything, Progress, Everyone, and Me.
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