“Any type of new project—animation, for example, which is new—that can be potentially a big project in terms of hours, we’ll look at the postmortem of ‘predicted versus actual’."
“Using Harvest has helped us become more proactive as a team. When timesheets are easy to enter, we have good data to work with. Everyone has a clear picture of how a project is progressing and can see problems before they happen – allowing us to respond and be more profitable without sacrificing creativity.”
“I think Harvest is helpful because it does a lot of the organization and the work for you. I come from a charter management organization background where we're literally sending out timesheets and asking people to sign them — it's a very involved process. And with Harvest, a person can simply go into the system and log their hours and it's all seamless within the process.”
“I think that’s the true value of the platform. If you’re able to get people to think more holistically about the data, then they can effectively manage the teams better and they can manage morale, they can manage culture, they can manage the balance between work and play.”
"It helps us be transparent. I can provide clients with incredibly detailed lists of exactly what happened using an export from Harvest."
"When we found Harvest we didn’t even bother with a free trial, we just opened our wallets, and never looked back."
"Tracking time allows us to see where we’re spending our time and resources. Some of the programs are more resource-strapped, so we get together and look at where to allocate time, and money, and where to cut back."
"It’s not only an incredibly useful tool, but it actually made us enjoy keeping track of our time!"
“Time tracking has helped us understand that we (and our clients) don’t realize how long it takes to design great work.”
"It’s important for the team to understand where they are on projects. So we establish a budget on every single project and use Harvest to keep track."
“The program we used offered a lot more features and settings. Though, in the end, it wound up being overly complicated to navigate all of those features, many of which were unnecessary.”
“We handle general reporting on a weekly and monthly basis. We have weekly gut checks on our project burns and forecasting profitability going forward. We love the filters available under reporting, i.e. custom reporting options. Most of our reporting reviews are internal, but we’ve recently started sharing the PDF views of reports with clients, which we’ve received positive feedback on in terms of clarity and legibility.”
“It’s awesome to see emails coming in from parents that have three or four kids with learning disabilities and hear that Provider Choice has really helped them. It’s just cool to know you’re helping people.”
“Something we see a lot is that especially non-technical co-founders, they really want to focus on growing a big business. They want to find a partner they can trust to own the product side of the business while they focus on sales and marketing and moving into overseas markets.”
“It’s not because the tools don't exist, it's because the lawyers are unwilling to invest the time and the energy into learning how to use them. It's a profession that has always been really resistant to technological change. And I think it's because very few lawyers have any kind of technical background. They're sort of disinterested in technology and computers. I don't actually think it's because they're too busy. I just think it's a problem of priority.”