Alternatives to Harvest Forecast to optimise your resource management

The use of time tracking and resource planning software is essential for successful project management.

In this article, we present improved alternatives to Harvest Forecast that will help you optimise your processes and improve your team’s efficiency.

Teambook: an easy-to-use tool for a variety of sectors

Teambook is a highly acclaimed resource management software designed to meet the needs of teams in a variety of sectors. As a people management tool, it centralises your people and projects on a single live timeline, making it easy to plan resources and allocate tasks according to the capacity of each team member.

 

Teambook makes managing working hours, locations, skills and departments child’s play. It’s an essential tool for managers who want to have a clear view of resource capacity and availability, so they can allocate the right team to each project.

 

When it comes to resource planning, Teambook excels with features such as task planning, time budget management and capacity forecasting. It also enables efficient time tracking, with pre-filled timesheets based on planned times and real-time comparison between estimated and actual times.

Easy integration with other tools and workflows is another of Teambook’s strengths. Whether you want to synchronise events with your calendar, import tasks from your favourite project management tool, or send recorded hours to your invoicing system, Teambook adapts to your needs.

 

 

 

 

In short, Teambook is a comprehensive and flexible resource management software package that has been acclaimed by many teams for its ability to simplify resource planning and optimise people management. What’s more, Teambook offers pricing based on the number of projects rather than the number of users. What’s more, Teambook is free up to 10 active projects.

 

Consult our article Teambook versus Forecast.app.

Runn: improve your project management

Runn is another alternative to Harvest Forecast that offers good resource management. By integrating Harvest and Runn, managing complex projects becomes child’s play. This synchronisation between advanced time tracking and resource planning means you avoid double data entry and the need to switch between different applications.

• Create schedules for your resources and projects
• Track usage targets and avoid overbooking
• Refine your project expectations using Harvest data in Runn
• Evaluate the impact of different dependencies on profitability, budget and delivery times

By combining these features, Harvest and Runn meet the needs of different types of project management – agile, scrum or waterfall.

Productive: another alternative

For agencies looking to replace Harvest Forecast, Productive is also an attractive option. Migration from Harvest Forecast to Productive is quick and easy, allowing you to import your projects, tasks, users, hourly rates, contacts and companies in the blink of an eye.

Plan resources efficiently with Productive

With Productive, resource planning becomes more efficient thanks to :

• Balanced distribution of workloads
• Visualising current and future resource requirements
• Analysing the availability of team members to determine the feasibility of projects
• Advanced usage reports to optimise workloads and improve efficiency

By analysing time tracking data from Harvest, you can also identify opportunities for improvement and determine whether additional resources are required.

Monitor project progress and maximise your team’s productivity

Productive also allows you to :

• Manage time spent on tasks within budget
• Add or remove members to a project to maximise productivity
• Monitor progress using customisable dashboards and reports

Managing time tracking without proper resource management is like leaving a cake half-baked. With alternatives such as Teambook, Runn and Productive, you can take full advantage of the data collected to optimise your processes and strategies. Ultimately, this will improve the efficiency of your team and the success of your projects.