Carlos Bruscoli works at devego, a design/development company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He wrote in to tell us why his team loves Basecamp and Highrise.
Basically we make some websites and web apps for our costumers, and also we recently founded a startup, ( atommica ) in which we are cooking our own projects ( all of them mega-cool btw :)
The keypoint here, is that we have a partnership with another agency in London, which works exclusively with print design, and we are providing this guys with the web-interactive part. Imagine the timezone differences, the normal problems that rise in every work situation, and the need to quick-response or quick-action based on all of this projects, everyone with their own deadlines and milestones. This scenario is our "everyday".
The Rock-Age ( as we refer to the pre-basecamp era ) was really chaotic. Mails lost, unread stuff, mixed address, mixed calendars, tasklist in excel files... i mean literally.. chaos.
Now, back to our days, Basecamp is the air we breathe everyday, it gives us all the tools to actually ENJOY this work, while keeping it simple without a "mega-extra" organization or effort from any of the offices. We get all the projects organized by themselves, everyone knows what to do next with the tasklists and we actually dont need to design a really cool intranet for our clients sees some demos, and also the clients don't tamper our emails with their content documents, or the new pictures they need to post in their website.
Milestones at devego's Basecamp account.
Also to extend our "love-affair" with 37signals, we just get a Highrise account, where we are going to organize in a better way our bids, and also we are managing our Team Recruiting from there, it help us to get the most interesting candidates marked, and we all can put notes about them regarding their interviews, and its really really easy take a desition based on all that collected data.
Thanks for this, and it will be great to give our testimonial in your newsletters, we are happy enough to tell the world that this products still worth it, even with a 3.5 Peso to 1 USD exchange rate.
The Dashboard at devego's Basecamp account.
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