Harvest Project Time Tracking

Track budgeted versus tracked hours, project progress, tracked hours by assignee, and more.

This Harvest time tracking dashboard keeps project managers well-informed of how time is handled across projects. With this dashboard, we can answer the following questions:

What is our ratio of completed to total tasks? How many tasks are currently incomplete or overdue?

How are our tracked hours measuring up to our budgeted hours in each project?

What is our project progress in terms of tracked and remaining hours over the past 30 days?

What are the budget and deadline details of our active projects?

Take control with Harvest time tracking dashboards

The role of project managers is to keep multiple budgets balanced: budgets in terms of money, hours, and tasks. This Harvest time tracking dashboard helpfully visualizes numerous aspects of projects managed with Harvest, giving project managers a single resource they can rely on to stay on top of everything they need to know.

To let project managers view only necessary data, the Projects dropdown at the top of the Harvest time tracking dashboard lets project managers filter what data is visualized throughout the dashboard, whether only a specific project, several projects, or all current projects.

For instant metrics, project managers can consult the Tasks card and Time (Hours) card. These present figures about project tasks—total versus completed, incomplete and overdue—and time on tasks—billable versus nonbillable hours, invoiced versus not-invoiced hours. Being able to call on these numbers at a moment’s notice is important, but understanding their relationships without having to do any mental math even more helpful.

Thus, this Harvest integration provides the trio of Project Completion Rate, Project Budget Utilization, and Time Utilization Rate radial gauges visualize the ratios from the Tasks and Time cards. In a look, project managers can see whether they are running on time or falling behind in the selected projects. From there, they can make informed decisions to complete projects by their deadlines.

Essential Time Management Visualizatios

The Budgeted versus Tracked Hours by Project column chart further breaks down the Harvest time tracking in this dashboard. Each category in the chart represents a project, and the columns in each category represent the budgeted hours and tracked hours next to each other. This provides another easy way for managers to check the progress of their various projects immediately. It also allows managers to instantly see how close their teams are to meeting or exceeding allotted time budgets.

For project managers looking to dig into the details of how time is being used in projects, the Project Progress by Date line chart of this Harvest time tracking dashboard plots two series, tracked hours and remaining hours, on a day-by-day basis. This chart can also be used to see the overall trend of how well time is being used.

Next is the Tracked Hours by Assignee column chart, showing the billable hours and nonbillable hours accumulated by each assignee. This evaluates the working efficiency of each employee, which can be used to inform targeted trainings, manpower reallocation, and other strategies to maximize billable hours while minimizing nonbillable hours.

Finally, the Active Projects Summary data grid at the bottom of the Harvest time tracking dashboard lists the details of each project, including its budget, billable hourly rate, created date, due date, and more. This widget is particularly helpful for evaluating the finances of each project, revealing which projects should be the most profitable for the company.

The unique collection of charts, widgets, and cards allows project managers to ensure time is utilized efficiently so that deadlines are met and clients are satisfied.