We implement a lot of projects at IT Freedom, for ourselves and our customers. In a sense, growing our IT services business has been nothing but a continual stream of projects to sell, expand, and improve our services.
We looked for a long time for software to help us easily and effectively manage all of our internal and external projects. Spreadsheets don't provide the structure we need, and Microsoft Project, in my opinion, is too expensive and bloated for all but very large-scale projects. Several months ago we discovered and started using an online product called Basecamp by 37Signals that we think is nearly perfect for our needs. Basecamp has developed a bit of a cult following, for good reason:
