[tom3k]

Hi, thanks for your comment. Whilst I haven’t used basecamp before, I’ve used trello quite extensively. Suppose each team in a company had its own board, and each board had lists splitting milestones into ’this week’, ’this month’ and ‘this year’. Sure, you could go through each board and see what teams were up to, but wouldn’t it be easier if you could aggregate all of that data in one place? Wouldn’t trello boards become even more complicated if you wanted to add the concept of individual lists, whilst still maintaining the format ‘this week’, ‘this month’ and ‘this year’? Lastly, I’ve yet to see how trello could provide a ‘timeline’ visualisation of milestones that were achieved in the past alongside those which are still yet to be achieved.

Basecamp, on the other hand, does appear to provide a ‘timeline’ visualisation of a project, but the service seems to focus more on keeping ‘stuff’ to do with a project in one place. My proposal is very different in that it focuses solely on milestones. Users would have the ability to group similar milestones together, for example ‘achieve X sales’ where the value of X could then be plotted on a graphed alongside the date achieved. This would allow, say, a team lead to monitor the progress of an individual or the team itself. I think this is quite different from basecamp’s offering.

Hope that answers your question!