Our jobs are getting bigger, we have more coders and more clients. We were bursting with the amount of emails going back and forth. It was time to get a project management platform.

We deicided on ActiveCollab

It is a clone of Basecamp, which is written in Ruby on Rails. ActiveCollab is php.

The main difference is Basecamp is a monthly subscription. ActiveCollab is OPEN SOURCE! And we do so love open source.

We've been using it one week and so far so good. The big question when getting it was:

WILL THIS TOOL IMPROVE OUR WORK OR CREATE MORE?????

We didn't want something that took time to manage because it would end up not being used at all. But it is a real joy to log in and see each job clearly listed. You can enter a job and see the coders who are working on it. You can see the notes they have made, the deadlines they need to meet, the messages back and forth. And the same goes for the clients. They can log in and post messages or simply watch that we are actually working on thier job!

It is too early to tell but my hunch is that the platform will be used by us. How exciting! I love tools that improve my work so I can spend less time working!

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