![]() ![]() Harvest was recommended almost unanimously. I also asked my Bureau peeps about time tracking. Based on these observations and the vote of confidence from my colleagues, it seemed to make a great deal of sense to try. The more I looked at Forecast, the more I thought OMG this looks amazing, and it does everything I want it to do. I wondered if I could make Forecast work with Tempo. I’d heard of it, and thought it looked pretty good. On a monthly Bureau of Digital call with the group I became part of after Owner Camp last year, I asked, “What software are people using to plan and forecast for their business?” And 75-80% of people said Forecast. So, now what? Bureau of Digital to the Rescue! Well, it didn’t work any better than the first time we tried. We spent time looking at different software options to optimize our planning, and so we decided to give Tempo planner another try. Last year, we hired a Customer Success Manager to help us become operationally better. ![]() They make sense for things like billable development time, but how do you track administrative time, meeting time, or creative work that isn’t attached to an issue? When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and for Jira, everything is centered around issues. Any plugin to Jira (like Tempo), is limited by how Jira works. Unfortunately, the Tempo user experience is tied to how Jira works, and from a user experience perspective, is extremely prescriptive. We use Jira for tracking time to tickets, so we tried using Tempo Planner, the part of Jira that allows you to, in theory, schedule people. I've tried to plan “resources” with spreadsheets. I've taken a few different approaches to doing that. However, I've wanted to be more growth-minded, planful and regimented in the future business and work we do. At TEN7, we’ve excelled at servicing our clients. But in order to grow more proactively, you need to put plans in place. When a company starts out, its growth is organic, and much of its functioning is reactionary. ![]()
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