On Friday, April 10th, Database Designs' Steven Backman and Mimi Kantor were part of a panel leading the workshop "Making it Real: Getting Project Management Right for Content Management Web Projects." This workshop explored how to adapt project management practices to content management-based web site projects.
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Posted April 9th, 2010 by Linda RoistacherBasecamp: how to post new messages from email
Posted February 24th, 2010 by Steve BackmanYou can now post new messages to a Basecamp project directly from your email. Users have asked for this for some time, and it will be a most useful feature. Previously, you could respond to a message from email, and now you can initiate a new discussion.
The trick is to find out your unique email address for projects you want to post to and put that in your address book. Here is the explanation from 37Signals:
http://productblog.37signals.com/products/2010/02/new-in-basecamp-post-a...
Manage Projects With Open Atrium for Drupal
Posted August 23rd, 2009 by Steve Backman
I’m trying out Open Atrium. http://openatrium.com/ Now in first beta, Open Atrium from Development Seed consolidates powerful project management features to Drupal in a modern, polished format.
When we first started bearing down on Drupal two years ago, about the first thing we wanted to do manage independent projects on our own www.dbdes.com site. We got reasonably far, with the ability to define clients, projects, tasks and organize blog-like discussion and documents for each.
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Basecamp and Project Management
Posted November 22nd, 2008 by Steve BackmanBack in September, Peter Campbell kicked off a discussion about project management in the idealware.org blog. I wanted to pick up the thread by focusing in on Basecamp. Among project management-related tools, Basecamp has the buzz. It is quite common when we start a new project, that someone from the team involved will have used it and know their way around it.
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Basecamp to Microsoft Access integration
Posted September 27th, 2008 by Steve BackmanDid you know you can export your entire Basecamp project space into an XML file? This is a great personal reassurance feature of BaseCamp. You can at any time pull everything you have put into Basecamp back out into a transportable format. (Well, not everything—not uploaded documents—but definitely everything else.) Go to “Account” and scroll down to “Need to export your data.”
What can you do with all this stuff once you have exported it?
Heathrow's T5 and technology project management
Posted April 8th, 2008 by Steve BackmanI have been trying to follow the problems in the new T5 terminal at Heathrow Airport. There are small project management problems and there are big ones. Ours are modest. On the scale of big, you have T5 which apparently included 400,000 hours of software development (that’s a lot of lines of code!), a full year of testing and a full year of training. Yet its open was a technology disaster.
Practical project management
Posted November 11th, 2007 by Steve BackmanLaura Quinn at Idealware.org published an excellent survey of tools for project management, “Six Views of Project Management Software.”
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