:-( Categories Opinion Tags business, customerservice, webbasedapps Which tradeoff is worth more to you?” The sad thing is, if it were not for blind ideology, it wouldn’t have to be either/or. Jason’s last comment to me was: “ Look at it this way… Go use another tool, get the Gantt charts, but miss the other 90%. It’s a damn shame to find a product like BaseCamp that does 90% of what I need but, because of IMO blind ideology, its owner Jason Fried won’t even consider adding a feature for which arguably 65% of people would benefit. I even proposed I could try to put BaseCamp and DBI Technologies together for DBI to provide optional GANTT charting of BaseCamp projects via DBI’s Solutions::Schedule product, but Jason wasn’t even interested in entertaining the idea, even if someone else was doing the work. I need this so I can keep from missing deadlines when I’m bombarded with almost literally 100 choices for how to spend my time each day. Why do I need GANTT charts? Because I’m a visual learner and I need a GANTT chart to be able to see the big picture related to a large number of parallel projects that all share resources. Plus, isn’t a manifesto ideological by definition? From my email conversation with Jason, is seems to be the latter. Why won’t BaseCamp ever support GANTT charts? Maybe it’s BaseCamp’s competitive positioning, or maybe it’s because of ideology based on BaseCamp’s Manifesto, Jason just doesn’t believe in them. Problem is, after an email exchange with the founder Jason Fried, they don’t now and won’t ever (he claims) support a visual view of a project in the form of a GANTT chart. I’ve been looking for a reasonably-priced web-based project management system for quite some time, and yesterday I thought I found it: BaseCamp from 37Signals. They are so caught up in their own blind ideology they won’t consider alternative views.
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