Item: Basecamp
Rating: 9
Author: Amy Wellner

Overall Satisfaction with Basecamp

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Basecamp is used to encourage collaboration across multiple teams and multiple geographic areas. It is a new tool for our organization and offers a platform for us to generate ideas, make plans, and hold team members accountable, as well as idea share and give feedback/input. It is an excellent tool for project management, for those who know project management and those who don't.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Managing reports for various users so I can quickly see what is on my plate and the plates of others.
Easy to use, intuitive interface. People with all technological skill levels will be able to use the program.
Monitor activity several ways - by person, by date, or by project segment.

Cons

Better integration with Google Docs and e-mail (could show a display of the doc instead of the icon, auto-assign an e-mail to a project, etc).
A feature that would allow you to resurrect a project and tasks, that would automatically clear out the history so you could start fresh without having to re-enter all the tasks.
It would be great to be able to toggle between seeing completed tasks and uncompleted tasks, both all at once, or just one at a time. Being able to see only the uncompleted tasks on a project would be helpful to give a better overview of what still needs to be done.

Return on Investment

Positively impacted our bottom line, as it saves us time and money by allowing us to meeting deadlines

Alternatives Considered

Smartsheet

Basecamp is more intuitive, easier to use, and honestly, more fun!

Other Software Used

Google Drive, Asana, Concur Travel and Expense, Weebly

Likelihood to Recommend

Basecamp is best utilized for teams of people assigned to work on multi-layered projects. It is especially useful for my team who has members who work remotely or part-time. The best part of using Basecamp is that it allows me to spend focus time working on this specific project, and there is less clutter in my inbox because all the questions are contained to Basecamp. I've tried to use it just for my own use as a task manager, but it's not set up well for that.

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Intuitive and Fun to Use!