Why Basecamp is one of the best project management software available ?

Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool developed by 37signals. The Ruby on Rails framework was extracted from the Basecamp project .

Features

Basecamp offers to-do lists, wiki-style web-based text documents, milestone management, file sharing, time tracking, and a messaging system. It also offers integration with its own Campfire product.

Basecamp API

A Basecamp API, created by 37signals, allows developers to integrate Basecamp into their applications. It allows applications to access and modify Basecamp data, and is implemented as Vanilla XML over HTTP. It also accepts requests in the YAML format but responses are given in XML.

Praise and criticism

Since Basecamp was created according to 37signals’ Getting Real philosophy, it has been criticized for being too simple. 37signals’ CEO, Jason Fried, has also been criticized by some for keeping the product simple and refusing to implement requests.

Basecamp has also claimed much praise, including positive reviews in the New York Times.