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Basecamp Vs Collabtive | Lavender Web Design

Basecamp Vs Collabtive

Posted by: Rob Lavender on Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

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...

 

About the author

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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.

Comments on this post:

+1 for collabtive. We really

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on Wed, 2011-07-13 04:41.

+1 for collabtive. We really liked basecamp but the monthly fees are crazy high for what you get plus it's only hosted remotely. After searching around we found collabtive and wow! It's great looking, simple, free and installed on our servers. -1 for activecollab. Those dude are traitors. Starting out open source then charging for every edition, lamers...

Many online project

Submitted by kevin (not verified) on Tue, 2010-09-28 11:56.

Many online project management software are available these days. every software have different different features. We have been use proofhub for 5 months and it is really good. It is easy to use, simple and fast also. It has many features which provides great results. No special software required for ProofHub. It is a great collaboration tool for businesses that helps exchanging the required information inside your teams and with your clients.It provides a time tracking features by which employees, managers and executives can track the progress of projects, seeing which ones are on track or running behind schedule.

Another great project

Submitted by Deepika (not verified) on Tue, 2010-08-31 11:57.

Another great project management software is http://www.proofhub.com/. ProofHub is a web based project management and collaboration software that helps you manage, schedule, discuss, work and communicate with clients and team.

Hello, sorry to butt in but

Submitted by CoRemote (not verified) on Mon, 2010-08-09 22:36.

Hello, sorry to butt in but since the subject is relevant ... we are a UK based web application called CoRemote, inspired by basecamp with the goal of filing the gaps they missed and also fine tuning more for the creative industry. If you have time to take a look we'd welcome any feedback. All the best.

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