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Basecamp Vs Collabtive

Basecamp is a well seasoned pro at project management. Collabtive is a young upstart.

Collabtive certainly offers an excellent alternative if you're considering the first tier Basecamp plan at $24 a month. It will do everything that Basecamp can do and you can even import your projects from Basecamp if you decide to switch. Where Basecamp really comes in to it's own is with the 'Project Templates' feature. You can set up templates with common project tasks, milestones and even messages so the next time you start your project you can get a head start by using a template. Callabtive doesn't offer this yet, but there are hints and tips on the chat forum about how you can copy projects. Also, Basecamp limits you to 15 projects on the lowest plan.

There's a lot of project management tools available, but for most people's a lot these are too complicated or have a very confusing interface. 37 signals, the creators of Basecamp, are really leading the way by providing people with fully functional systems that are designed with the user in mind, and with open source projects like Collabtive i'd say that one or two people have been following close behind.

Basecamp

Plans start at $24 per month

• Create users, assign permissions
• Create a project, create task lists, create milestones
• Track time on projects
• Basecamp has added project templates

Collabtive

Open source - www.collabtive.o-dyn.de

Similar to basecamp, open source so you can contribute back to the project

Good quick start guides: 

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/organize-your-team-with...

http://chasesagum.com/8-reasons-you-will-love-collabtive-for-open-source...

Alternatives

Activecollab- $499 full feature version - www.activecollab.com

http://smallbiztrends.com/2009/09/basecamp-a-good-choice-to-manage-proje...

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Robert studied graphic design and then interactive design at college and university. Initally finding his feet in the world of work creating graphics for television idents, before turning his hand to creating the company website. This began his love affair with the web. Rob loves to get stuck up to his eye balls in photoshop layers and occasionally likes to frazzle his brain with PHP and Javascript.