Project Management
[tags]project management, startup, activecollab, basecamp[/tags]
Alright, first thing I did today has been to install activeCollab. It doesn’t support everything I want yet, doesn’t have an API so I can write Vim Scripts for it, but it’s getting there. Right now it does what’s important so it’s cool I can live with it. I just wish DreamHost was a bit faster with the database.
Why is a Project Management important? I realized that it’s next to impossible to do anything without writing it down and having a plan on how to implement it to a certain degree. That is at my job I need a level of knowing what needs to be done and a level of creativity. Project Managements lets me manage the former. That is to say I can organize what needs to be done and the relative time that it should be done by.
So What’s so special about activeCollab and why didn’t I go with Basecamp? I actually was looking into Basecamp and it has the cool features that I want like an API and Writeboard and seeing the changes between the two. However, I really want to manage more than 3 projects which I have to pay 12 bucks for. I mean I’m not going to be actively doing more than three things, but it’s nice to know that I can have that capibility. I also can store unlimited files which is good to know. Also, activeConllab is actively being developed so I want to see where it is going.
If I could go with the $25 dollar plan, but that’s $25 dollars a month and I just don’t see myself paying that much for a Project Management software.
So I hope that activeCollab comes out with an API soon cause I really don’t want to be filling out things outside of Vim. Yes, I know Vim is like an addiction for me. 
