Recently we used Basecamp to manage a web build for a client and we found it to be one of the easiest-to-use project management tools.
Basecamp is an online project management tool that allows you to keep all the communications for your projects in the one place and if you currently rifle through emails looking for bits of communication and attachments associated with your projects, then Basecamp is by far the better option.
Basecamp provides a very effective way of setting project milestones, checklists and communications. The trick to making Basecamp a success we found was to get people into the habit of using it for all communications relating to the project including any outside communications such as action points discussed in meetings and notes made from telephone communications etc.
One of the features of basecamp is the opting out of notification when they are irrelevant to you and the ability to create multiple to-do lists per project. As an example, for our web build project, we were able to create, assign and track separate checklists for the Chinese, Korean and English versions of the builds and tick each action point off as they were completed.
Here is a good Basecamp introductory instructional video we found on YouTube:
If you currently use email to manage projects and to transfer
assets and if you are unfamiliar with using project management tools, we would recommend
Basecamp to any company looking to get organised, streamline business processes
and keep projects moving in the right direction.
For all of your more complex projects where you need to
manage multiple stakeholders, deadlines, resources, management of assets and
signoffs, we would definitely recommend integrating basecamp into your project
planning and delivery.
