matthallett | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 03 2006 | Getting Real, Basecamp, 37signals
This is an awesome read. Sheds some light on the unnessary puffery built into projects these days with long project timelines and 200 page functional specs.
Quoted: Getting Real, the book, details the business, design, programming, and marketing concepts and methodologies of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software design and development.
Related Content from Around Faves
37signals
-
I do like that a top-level datatype in basecamp is the milestone. Todo lists, message, files, specs, etc. can all be included as part of the milestone. On the negative side, the one feature I was looking for -- a hierarchal view of all the workitems for the cycle -- seems to be missing.
3 FaversViewed: 2 TimesQuoted: People working together on projects need a way to share project data. There are emails, meeting appointments, assigned tasks, and files to share among project members. In addition, appropriate access must be granted to internal managers and external stakeholders such as clients. While Microsoft Project, Project Server and Project Web Access are designed for complex enterprise projects, many organizations and project teams don't need the sophistication of Microsoft Project, and do not want to manage and administer such a system
- eric - Oct 26 20071 FaverViewed: 6 Times
- mohit - Dec 27 20074 FaversViewed: 15 Times
news
-
Aw, sad...
0 FaversViewed: 2 TimesQuoted: Tavern on the Green, once America's highest-grossing restaurant, is singing its culinary swan song. The famed Central Park landmark serves its last meal New Year's Eve.
- shiwani - 2 days ago0 FaversViewed: 7 Times
- LostInTheSupermarket - 7 days ago1 FaverViewed: 60 Times
