Basecamp

What differentiates Basecamp from other similar products?

Is cheap hence affordable

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Resource Management for my type of work

What do you dislike most about this product?

All features are excellent

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Is recommended to professionals dealing with huge or medium sized projects for easy and effective resource management

What differentiates Basecamp from other similar products?

I think they have a very good model of use for enterprises or organizations.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Definitely the wide array of features available and the prompt/alerts that send to team members when assigned tasks or projects.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Great product, but I wonder if there might be similar products available for use for less.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Great product for orgs considering purchasing or onboarding project management/task management platform software!

What differentiates Basecamp from other similar products?

Basecamp is very easy to implement across teams. Our current Basecamp includes multiple departments—members from our technical support and front office teams, R&D, operations, and marketing groups—and our department utilizes Basecamp projects the most when it comes to planning our exhibits at conferences since multiple departments are involved. Basecamp required very little onboarding, and the tool provides excellent means of communication.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The Campfire feature provides an option for teams to discuss urgent items, the calendar can share milestones with Google Calendar, and it's easy to organize documents within folders. In fact, documents are much easier to organize and access within Basecamp than Google Drive. The mobile app provides an easy way for our representatives to access critical show documents such as electrical and labor orders without needing to carry a laptop with them. And, one can quickly ask for help by at-mentioning or pinging another team member no matter where they are.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The Gantt chart plug-in is clunky and dependencies are non-existent. So, if you are a project manager, there are only a few tools at your disposal for keeping projects on track. This application is obviously geared for project participants that do not have a project manager role or for those who want to manage projects without any complexity.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

When we established Basecamp, we realized that the communication was only as good as the notifications that each profile set individually. To create some foundations for communication, we elected a small team to propose a baseline notification setting list that we expected all project participants to have. This way, when we at-mention someone, we have at least a minimal expectation of how someone is notified. This was extremely helpful for our traveling representatives who, if they needed help right away, could rest assured that their at-mention would appear as a pop-up notification and in an email for increased visibility.