[webproducers] Re: Resourcing the development team

I just started using BC b/c that's what are client is using but
personally I'm a fan of Active Collab

Sara

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Marc Siry <lists@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We live by Basecamp in my biz, but we found it so poor for resource
> management that we custom built an interface on top of it
> *specifically* to do resource planning.
>
> Because we're creative types and all, we called it... Resource Planner.
>
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> On May 13, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Steven Hubert wrote:
>
>> Hey Galvin,
>> I am curious  to hear how specifically you use Basecamp for resource
>> management. My organization using BC as well for project management
>> but find
>> it woefully ill-equipped for resource management so if you can let u
>> know it
>> would be more than helpful.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Galvin <chrisg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I recommend Basecamp. We (17FEET) use Basecamp for all of our
>>> projects
>>> religiously because it's flexible enough to make changes on the fly
>>> and
>>> other users can do the same. It's not as robust as some other PM
>>> tools, but
>>> what Basecamp lacks in robustness, it makes up in simplicity and
>>> convenience.
>>>
>>> --- gcarpino@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>
>>> From: gcarpino@xxxxxxxxxx
>>> To: webproducers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [webproducers] Re: Resourcing the development team
>>> Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 09:16:49 -0700 (PDT)
>>>
>>> Thanks everyone that replied to my message appreciate the advice.
>>> --- On Wed, 5/13/09, Frank Dinolfo <dinofrank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> From: Frank Dinolfo <dinofrank@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Subject: [webproducers] Re: Resourcing the development team
>>> To: "webproducers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <webproducers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: "<webproducers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>" <webproducers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Received: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 2:22 AM
>>>
>>> U hold exactly the same position and utilize the giant whiteboard
>>> method. It is extremely easy to keep up to date along with keeping
>>> the
>>> production team and the account team up to date on who is doing what.
>>>
>>> Frank Dinolfo
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On May 12, 2009, at 8:20 PM, "Guy & Fil"
>>> <gcarpino@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I manage the digital production group of an ad agency, part of my
>>>> responsibilities is to manage the resourcing of our small dev team.
>>>> We have a weekly resource meeting with the producers and map out the
>>>> week for our dev group (which projects their working on, which day
>>>> and how many hours). During the hustle and bustle of the week the
>>>> developers schedule shifts and their finding that the schedule we
>>>> create the previous Thursday doesn't really represent in most cases
>>>> an accurate reflection of their week.
>>>>
>>>> Do you know of any resource scheduling tools that can be easily
>>>> updated and shared or some advice on how to resolve this. At this
>>>> point I'm contemplating putting up a giant white board in the dev
>>>> area that the producers can update on the fly.
>>>>
>>>> Help!
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