Basecamp Project Management Software: Features and Implementation

This assignment provides an analysis of Basecamp, a popular project management software. It begins with an overview of Basecamp's features, including real-time group chat, file storage, and documentation capabilities. The paper discusses how Basecamp facilitates project initiation, collaboration, and accountability through features like to-do lists and deadline management. It highlights the software's user-friendly interface and its ability to create transparency among team members. The assignment explores the software's application in various industries and uses the example of a bathroom renovation project to illustrate its practical use. The analysis emphasizes the software's suitability for small projects and its overall effectiveness in managing tasks, deadlines, and team communication. The assignment concludes by referencing relevant literature on project management and software applications.

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Project Management Software- Basecamp
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Basecamp Software
Basecamp is a project management software that is used for variable purposes
managing a project activity. The first ever project management software is the Basecamp also
the oldest software among all the other available. It has been available for the past ten years
in the world of project management. The features are group chat in real time, file storage and
documentation (Makhija & Goyal, 2014). The addressing of the software for the various
stages of project management is easier process to understand. For the initiation phase the
software explores and evaluates the project fully through automation. The functionality of the
software allows the project team to conduct the evaluation on its own. Taking all the
constraints of the project, the software prepares a list of points that compares the feasibility of
the project. If all the constraints are feasible then the software allows to move to next task.
It allows collaboration and this software is totally cloud-based. It has various features
such as it provides easy communication, the ability to collaborate helps the members to
communicate well and share ideas about the project among all. The communication is aided
by text, pictures, files for the member of a project. The next feature is the high accountability
of the application, the presence of to-do-list helps in keeping track of the tasks need to be
done, it allows the manager of the project to distribute the task along with assigning a
deadline to it (Weidner, 2014). It updates the members with the deadline and where a new
task is on the line it provides notification of a new task. It can be accessed not only be laptops
and desktops but also via mobiles with iOS or Android. The status of the project as well as
the individual task is easier to understand by each member of the team. The most interesting
feature of the application is that it enables the user to control all the tools at one place. Hence,
the interface being very friendly is credit to the application. For every project a different
document is created which holds all the details, files and all essential files related to that
project (Raffel, 2015). Another feature of this application is that the project manager can used

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the application by customizing it and can only use those tools which are necessary for the
project. It can be used on several platforms.
Basecamp creates transparency between the members of the team allowing them to
share their ideas and make the project more effective. The communication in the software is
carried out with certain boundaries (Kirilov, 2016). It facilitates communication that is real-
time and mostly provides asynchronous. The internal communication that is between the
team members are through the writing, and sharing of images and files, the uses of the
software can direct ping and contact with the provider. The exchange of opinions happens
between the members which has the aim to take an effective decision about the project. This
communication helps the member who have even joined later on the project. The
communication is not dependent on the schedule of the project. The place for general
conversation is know as the campfire of the application.
The file sharing is very easy with this software, even if the person with whom the
sharing of file is needed then the person doesn’t have to have an account in Basecamp
(Silvius & Silvius, 2015). If the sharing has to be within the project team then but the direct
method of texting with the members are carried out and directly sharing the required file with
the members already present.
The software basecamp facilitates its services to several industry and variable type of
clients. It enables the client to access the project in the application (Booth & Kim, 2015). The
client can assess the software and shares their to-dos with the team members. The industry of
engineering, construction, IT and many.
Undertaking the project that I am doing is about renovating the bathroom of my
landlord. As basecamp does not have the barrier to have a group to perform project hence, it
benefits me to do the project on my own. I would make a to-do- list on the application of all
the steps I have to take to carry out this renovation plan. Then I will prepare a list of materials

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required for the project. Then I will divide the whole plan into series of small tasks and assign
the deadline of each task. The simultaneous notification and update will keep me on the track
of the schedule and help me to complete the project of the designated time. Hence, this
software will be a good fit to carry out the project of renovating bathroom. This software is
utilized for small project too. Thus, the functionalities of the application are most suitable.

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Reference
Booth, A., & Kim, J. (2015). Rethinking blackboard: Teaching models for interactive
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Kirilov, R. (2016). Software Solutions for Managing Projects co-financed under the European
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Makhija, Y., & Goyal, A. (2014). Comparative Study of Project Tracking and Management
Tools. International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technologies, 5,
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Raffel, S. (2015, July). Interactive story: project management from inception to testing.
In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Design of
Communication (pp. 1-2).
Silvius, A. G., & Silvius, C. M. (2015). Exploring functionality of mobile applications for
project management. Procedia Computer Science, 64, 343-351.
Weidner, A. (2014). Practical Project Management with Basecamp.