Hourglass gives project managers a live view of every engineer's workload, capacity, time off and delivery progress — in one drag-and-drop planner.
Most professional services firms can tell you their team is busy. Very few can tell you how busy, on what, or whether workload is balanced. Without visibility, capacity decisions are made on instinct — and delivery suffers when those instincts are wrong.
Assign engineers to projects on specific days with planned hours. Drag chips to reschedule — no spreadsheet, no back-and-forth.
Holiday, sick leave and other absences appear directly in the planner grid. No more accidentally scheduling someone who is off.
Planner chips turn green when an engineer reaches 85% of planned hours — a live signal of delivery progress across the whole team.
Filter the planner by team, project, or individual engineer. PMs see only their team; leads see only their reports.
A dedicated report showing billable vs non-billable split per engineer over any date range. Identify utilisation trends and outliers.
Engineers can view their own planner row and add time to their own assignments — without being able to edit anyone else's work.
How do agencies improve team utilisation?
By making capacity visible at a glance. When PMs can see who has spare hours and who is overloaded on the same screen, they can balance workloads before projects slip — not after.
What is a healthy utilisation rate for a professional services firm?
Most firms target 70–80% billable utilisation. Below 60% means wasted capacity. Above 85% consistently means burnout risk. Hourglass helps you see where each engineer sits in real time.
How does the Hourglass Engineer Planner work?
PMs assign engineers to projects on specific days with planned hours. Engineers see these assignments in their time tracking view, and log time directly against them. The planner updates with a green indicator once 85% of planned hours are logged.
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