subject: Basecamp alternative [print this page] Basecamp is a project management tool that is web-bases. It was developed and launched in 2004 by 37signals. What Basecamp has got to offer are mentioned here:
Management of milestone
Quick overview of projects on the dashboard
Manages to organize all your files in the same place
Centralizes the discussions with your team and the clients
Making to-do-lists
Making text documents that are web-based in wiki-style
Time tracking
File sharing
Offers you a managing system too.
Integrates with Campfire project when necessary
A popular Basecamp alternative is Dooster. Some believe it to be better than Basecamp. Dooster is also a software created for project managing purposes. What Dooster offers you are listed below.
Reminders and alerts
Task creator
Notes and comments
Screens for over-viewing
Involve and assign people
Task history
For overview of the project, it offers mind maps
Helps you with deadlines
Helps you with your emails
Data storage and managing files
Permission levels
Ed Parry developed this software being unsatisfied with other task managers. Dooster can help with emails, files, calendars and tasks and is not very expensive. It can be used along with other task managers also. Dooster keeps you updated with your emails, reports to you what your team is up to, which part is being handled by whom etc, it helps in organizing the data and files and keeps them in one particular place. It also allows you to set the level of accessibility and permission levels.
Dooster also offers economical tools to make to-do lists, calendars and inboxes.
Tasks can be made remotely through email, completed with dates of priority, reminders and assignments. The system allows automatic dispatch of these to the concerned people. Comments are the replies that come against these and are again emailed out.
You can just track the progress of the workers of the project even without having to find them out in the office. The automatic reminder keeps everybody on their toes.
Files are never lost and no unnecessary meetings are required to be held.
With the central storage facility, all the information like that about sales enquiry, list of family grocery etc are all available at one particular place.
To use Dooster, you need to sign up with it. No software downloads and install or hardware is available. No complicated contracts are there to be signed. You can get yourself a free trial version first. Then pay and buy the full version where in some free trials are also available.
Dooster works to keep record of the deadlines to be met.
In case one fails to understand how it works, Dooster gives instructional videos to demonstrate how it works and how it can be made use of to suit particular needs of project managing.
The project managing tools like Dooster or Basecamp etc help the small business man as well as an accomplished entrepreneur to keep to the deadlines and to manage and organize various projects.
