What system or program do you use for your managing your projects?

#1 Mateusz P.

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Posted 01 March 2011 - 01:59 PM

I am wondering what kind of tools, or programs do you use for business,
for contacting with clients and your coworkers ..
I'm considering crm, but I just need an opinion if it's worth to pay
for those systems.. Maybe you have some experience in this subject?

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Posted 01 March 2011 - 02:06 PM

Depends on your needs. For small projects, email and IM logs can suffice. For bigger stuff you might want to go with Basecamp or similar. Basecamp has a free plan you can use to test it out. I use it for one agency I work for and it comes in handy for records of past conversations and ammendments.

For managing code, get some source control. Git, hg, svn, cvs if needs be, but do it. You will not ever regret it. I'm personally a Mercurial fan but it varies depending on your requirements and hipness

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Posted 01 March 2011 - 03:11 PM

I honestly can't wrap my head around Git, so I'm sticking with SVN.

I use ProjectPier for project management, but I'd quite like to try Basecamp (or write my own with integrated billing).

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Posted 01 March 2011 - 03:13 PM

Mercurial is easy to pick up if you've used SVN and you get all the advantages of a DVCS. Git vs hg is much of a muchness.

There's a good guide to getting started here which includes an SVN primer.

edit: Also, hg plays nicely with Windows which git does not.

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