In "Project management is easy," Jamie Pittock of ErskineLabs talks about how his team uses Basecamp to manage projects.
THE PROJECT BACKLOG – create a list that you can use to store everything you might need to remember during the project.WEEKLY REVIEW MEETINGS – at the start of each week get the project team together, review the items in the Project Backlog, and convert the ones you need to work on into actionable tasks.
WEEK-BASED TO-DO LISTS – move these actionable tasks from the Project Backlog into a dedicated to-do list for that week’s work. Make sure anything in these lists are assigned to the person who’s responsible for making sure it’s done.
That’s it for now, if you take anything away from this take the following three points.
1. Don’t fight Basecamp
2. Write everything down
3. Focus on the actionable
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