[swindsor]

I think my issue is that I totally agree that fine-grained project management is evil, meetings suck, I read the books, listen to podcasts, drink the kool-aid, etc.

But, Basecamp is a project management tool. It allows you to track tasks (and due-dates), and milestones. I don't care about task dependancies, or gannt charts.

I do care about agile development. I do need to see the status of my project in an aggregate way (are we close yet?) Even understanding that estimates are wild guesses, task-level timeboxing is better than working backwards from dates. I can't image the due-date feature working well except for in some very narrow circumstances.

I guess overall if my definition is "project management" is different, then wouldn't they want their product to work to handle users like me? Or not, and that's okay. I'm just saying that I'm cut out of the niche of users they are looking for, whether it be intentional or not.

[tptacek]

I don't think Basecamp is a particularly good way to manage agile software development projects, or really software development projects of any kind, and especially not software development projects that have multiple cooperating team members.

Like the commenter downthread said, you want Pivotal Tracker, not Basecamp.