What is Resource Mint?

We love Basecamp project collaboration tool! It has helped us improve our Project Communication with our customers. Our customers love it too.

However, Basecamp has not solved the issue of internal project and resource management. After experimenting with several open source tools, and various versions of spreadsheets, we decided to write our own tool, using Basecamp.

PRIMARY CHALLENGE

In an environment where we have several small (websites or TYPO3 extension writing) projects open on Basecamp and a limited number of developers working on them, we have to have developers shuffle between projects often, depending upon customer responses, and other holdups.

In such a situation, we need to commit to customers as to when we will get back to them with firm estimates of their requirements or when do we have the next developer free to start working on a project.

Our biggest problem with Basecamp was that To-Dos do not have Completion Dates and Hours Estimates.

ENTER RESOURCE MINT

To solve this challenge, are designing a system to help our internal project and resource management. Here are some of the features of the product under development for Phase-I :

1. Enter Estimated Completion Date against each To-Do
2. Built-in alerts on To-Do dates exceeding Milestone dates
3. Enter estimated hours against each To-Do
4. Re-organise To-Do allocation among individuals and compare the occupancy status