From the course: Basecamp: Project Management Best Practices

Build teams - Basecamp Tutorial

From the course: Basecamp: Project Management Best Practices

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Build teams

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- [Instructor] You can improve collaboration in your organization by setting up Basecamp teams for people who work together, like the management team, departments, or development teams. To create a team, you go to the homepage, and to the left of the teams line, click the new button. We're going to start with the team that evaluates and prioritizes project proposals. It's usually a small group, people who help define projects, provide feedback on proposals, and select projects to work on. So I'm going to name this team project selection and then click save. When I do that, I can see the box for the team in the team section. Now I want to add some people to this team, so I'm going to click the box to open it. Now you can see that this team has its own page, so they can use the message board, the campfire, to-dos, really anything that you can do anywhere else in Basecamp, but just for the people in this team. So let's invite the other people to this team. Up at the top underneath the team name, I'm going to click invite some people. And then on the people on the team page, click add people. You can add information about people in these boxes, but if you've already added the people to your Basecamp account, you can click pick people from a company and then choose the company name. So I'm going to invite a few people to this team, Donald, Maria, and Jane. Then I click add selected people to add them to the team. Now I can add a personal note to the invitation email that goes out. So this might be invite to the selection team. Then click send now to send the message to everybody. Once they accept the invitation, they'll be part of the team and they can use messages or the chat room to discuss the projects that are proposed. Now let's go back and create another team. So I'm going to head to the home page and then I'll click that new button again. This time I'm going to create a team for the sales department. So I type the name of the team, sales, and click save. Just like we did before, I'm going to click the box for sales, and then up at the top, click invite some people. Now I'm going to click add people. First thing I'm going to do is add someone who's not part of Two Trees Olive Oil, so that's going to be Jessica Newton-Smith. She's actually a web developer. So I've got the information, her email and her title. But now I want to add people from Two Trees Olive Oil. So after I've added her information, I'm going to click pick people from a company, choose Two Trees Olive Oil, and I'm going to add Jane and Brett. Just like we did before, we're going to click add selected people, and I'm going to click send now to send out the invitations. And that's how you build different teams to make communication and collaboration easy.

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