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Forecast
December 5, 2016
The Weekly Heat Map Is Back in Forecast
Last month, we launched a way for Forecast’s heat map to show how much of your team’s weekly capacity had been scheduled. While we heard excitement for this new feature, it also replaced a really useful feature that many customers missed: the daily...
September 12, 2016
Coming Soon to Forecast: Weekly Utilization
Update 12-5-2016: The Weekly heat map is back! This time we’re re-introducing it alongside the trusty Daily heat map. Update 10-18-2016: While we originally rolled out this change earlier this week, after reviewing feedback from our customers we...
July 28, 2016
Scheduling Partial Time Off in Forecast
Knowing when someone will be off or on vacation is incredibly important to scheduling your team. Having that information handy helps you make better decisions about how to staff your team’s upcoming weeks, and helps you determine more realistic...
July 7, 2016
Smarter Filtering in Forecast: Project Tags, Search, and Multiple Options
Filtering the schedule in Forecast is one of the best ways to focus when planning your team’s time. You’re most often scheduling—or looking at the schedule of—a single person or project, and all other visible rows can become quite distracting....
June 6, 2016
Edit Forecast Assignments and Milestones Without Losing Your Place
One of Harvest Forecast’s founding principles was to be frictionless. Today, we release a simple update that should further minimize friction when scheduling. Now when you create or edit an assignment on the Forecast schedule, you’ll have access to...
April 10, 2016
Smaller Increments and More Flexible Scheduling in Forecast
Scheduling your team is a fundamental part of Forecast. On average, our customers create 50,000 new assignments every week—that’s a lot! Today, we’re releasing a major update to scheduling in Forecast that offers you tremendously more flexibility...
November 18, 2015
Zoom Out the Forecast Schedule
The schedule is at the heart of Forecast. It’s where you assign hours to your team and add milestones to your projects. It’s where you can see the team’s availability and overcapacity. Every week, it’s displayed on conference room TVs in meetings...
July 16, 2015
Forecasted Project Health now supports Fee-based Budgets
Earlier this year we announced a tighter integration between Harvest + Forecast, combining your tracked hours with your scheduled hours. This update allows you to compare your team’s estimates vs actuals, and also reveals real-time project health,...
July 10, 2015
Four Ways To Work Faster in Forecast
Harvest Forecast was created with three founding principles: be visual, be frictionless, and be central to you and your team. Today, we’re proud to announce major updates which make Forecast even more frictionless to use. We know the continuous...Start tracking time today
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