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- Setor: Software
- Porte da empresa: 2–10 funcionários
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 7.0 /10
A good (almost brilliant) project management SaaS tool
Avaliado em 16/10/2018
We use Asana and Forecast to manage time allocation to tasks, and use Forecast to plan out our...
We use Asana and Forecast to manage time allocation to tasks, and use Forecast to plan out our resource allocation.
Harvest Forecast seem to work well for us when planning work schedules over the next few weeks, but we do not seem to successfully use this for longer term project management. We use Harvest Forecast daily - it has become mission critical to the successful running of our business.
However we resort to spreadsheets (and Asana) to manage longer term forecasts, and for this have marked it down a star. I suspect that this is not the fault of the software per se, but our work flow process from Asana making this just too clumsy.
Still, Harvest Forecast a good, stable, well written piece of software. It is reasonably priced and one of the best methods to properly forecast project-based work.
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Forecast is easy to use and does the job as a forecast management tool for us. The ease of use should not be underestimated - we have trialed many other project management tools and they were just too hard to set up.
Moreover the integration to our Harvest itself (a time tracker) makes this much more powerful than a classic project management tool.
We use it to manage our software development processes, which has a mix of short 1-2 days tasks and longer multi-month projects.
Forecast and has some neat features: particularly like the quick way of setting up milestones.
Forecast now also allows time planning around weekends so you can accommodate over time and will work in countries where the weekend is not Saturday and Sunday.
Desvantagens
The integration method to Harvest Forecast is lumpy. You have to manually select which products in Forecast you import, and it is not perfectly linked, so change a name in, say, Asana and you have to manually fill this in.
It is hard to include public holidays.
- Setor: Medicina alternativa
- Porte da empresa: 2–10 funcionários
- Usado Semanal durante Mais de um ano
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 6.0 /10
Very convenient to use
Avaliado em 24/11/2024
I was very pleased with my experience with Forecast and it is great for scheduling
I was very pleased with my experience with Forecast and it is great for scheduling
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Very conveniently helps you keep track of all of your scheduling needs
Desvantagens
I didn’t notice anything that I didn’t like however some of the employees had issues updating theirs
Resposta do Harvest
Thanks for the kind words! If your team runs into any more trouble, they are more than welcome to reach out to our Experts at [email protected] for an assist.
- Setor: Serviços e tecnologia da informação
- Porte da empresa: 11–50 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante 1 a 5 meses
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 9.0 /10
If You Liked Harvest, You'll Love Forecase
Avaliado em 22/09/2023
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Super easy to use, the calendar feature is very straightforward and visually clear. Harvest had some bugs where their "scheduling assistant" feature often did not work, but I find that Forecast specializes in that feature. Keeping track of time and finding time to work with coworkers are extremely simple with Forecast.
Desvantagens
If you are switching from Harvest, you do need to individually carryover all features one by one, which may be tedious. If you do not have a specific project you are working on but are working on internal projects or are helping a coworker with their project, it may be hard to track time because you need a preset "task" in order to track time. I'd recommended having a general "internal" task to track time for work that does not relate to an existing project.
Resposta do Harvest
Thanks for your review! We’re so happy to hear how much you’re enjoying Forecast. I've also noted your feedback for the rest of the team.
- Setor: Publicidade e marketing
- Porte da empresa: 51–200 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante Mais de um ano
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 8.0 /10
Intuitive Time Planning Software That Adapts to Any Team Size
Avaliado em 06/05/2019
The software works like a dream if your organization has the depth of project management/trafficking...
The software works like a dream if your organization has the depth of project management/trafficking skill to understand how to balance its functions with the needs of the people captured by the system. This is NOT a great software for agile environments in my opinion.
Vantagens
Forecast (and its partner Harvest) make for a powerful program that can assist in planning any work that requires team effort. The process is easy, the interface readily understandable. Setup is very simple and new projects are easily managed in Forecast. You can be as detailed as you'd like, or very high-level. Perfect for traffic management, not so great for creativity.
Desvantagens
This isn't a software for agile environments, and it's VERY easy for project managers to get caught in the objective of making red into green (a person is over budgeted time allotments versus a person has time to do the work) rather than thinking about what they're actually splitting or assigning. This can be a big problem in creative environments where team members may need large chunks of time for thinking, creating, or researching.
- Setor: Transporte rodoviário e ferroviário
- Porte da empresa: 1.001–5.000 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante Mais de um ano
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 8.0 /10
Easy to use
Avaliado em 30/11/2022
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This tool has made it easy for me to schedule projects and forecast who will be available to do specific job at the company. It's so easily to use and it helps me assign task and distribute the workload.
Desvantagens
For a large organization like ours having lots of drivers and big teams project visualization can get quite overwhelming.
- Usado Diariamente durante 1 a 5 meses
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 7.0 /10
Predict accurately each project
Avaliado em 26/04/2018
Make precise calculations based on profits and benefits of each project in real time, knowing which...
Make precise calculations based on profits and benefits of each project in real time, knowing which of them is the most profitable and how the work team defends itself in each area to know what the strengths and weaknesses are.
Vantagens
The main functionality or where the application is focused is the ability that gives you to correctly forecast and schedule each project in composite with workers as a team, but in which it differentiates to others, which allows you to calculate costs based on time spent , this is the main advantage, you can see the benefit at the time of each project, when it is profitable and when it is not, so you can project the profits, know when a project extends more than it should and how this affects the profits of the company.
Desvantagens
It lacks some tools based on the management of projects at times may be too simple in excess and this will affect you when you reuyeras complete functionalities for management.
- Setor: Design
- Porte da empresa: 2–10 funcionários
- Usado Semanal durante Mais de um ano
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 7.0 /10
Bird's Eye View for Project Planning
Avaliado em 25/09/2019
Forecast is a great little tool for project managers and directors, allowing them to organise and...
Forecast is a great little tool for project managers and directors, allowing them to organise and get an overview of upcoming tasks and projects for different teams as well as individual employees.
Vantagens
Forecast was probably the best innovation from Harvest in recent years. Even though the parent tool is in dire need of a refresh, Forecast gives managers a bird's eye view of their upcoming projects, allowing them to individually assign tasks and distribute the workload.
Desvantagens
Despite the fact that it is a great forecasting tool, project visualisation can get a bit overwhelming on larger organisations with bigger teams.
- Setor: Software
- Porte da empresa: 11–50 funcionários
- Usado Semanal durante 1 a 5 meses
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 10.0 /10
Forecast has made utilization planning for our teams so much simpler!
Avaliado em 05/12/2017
The forecast has allowed us to move our utilization planning out of manually updated spreadsheets...
The forecast has allowed us to move our utilization planning out of manually updated spreadsheets and into a tool built for the job. It's been awesome, and the added cost is nominal compared to the value it delivers.
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Love the integration with Harvest. Being able to sort and filter by different criteria makes it super simple to like at Product teams, functional teams, offices, etc. the visibility we've gained with a Forecast has been a game changer.
Desvantagens
I wish it were a bit more directly integrated into Harvest (as opposed to living outside as a separate platform. As is, it's easy to accidentally create people, etc that aren't tied to a Harvest entry. Integrating would simplify our toolset as well, giving us one place to go to manage time tracking and team planning.
- Setor: Publicidade e marketing
- Porte da empresa: 51–200 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante 1 a 5 meses
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 8.0 /10
Project Management Essential Tool
Avaliado em 12/02/2019
Overall an easy to use interface for scheduling a team of staff for a variety of projects.
Overall an easy to use interface for scheduling a team of staff for a variety of projects.
Vantagens
Easy to use, simple interface. Clear colour coding allows for easy project scheduling.
Desvantagens
- Adding notes to projects can be limited
- Setor: Design
- Porte da empresa: 2–10 funcionários
- Usado Semanal durante 1 a 5 meses
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 10.0 /10
Nice planning tool
Avaliado em 25/11/2018
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As a fan of Harvest, I find that working with Harvest forecast is just as easy to use. This is a great tool for anyone who doesn't have a forecaster built into their project management software. Great for organizing your and your teams time and planning your upcoming work.
Desvantagens
I like all aspects of this software including pricing. It would only be better if integrated into a project management software like Monday.
- Setor: Design gráfico
- Porte da empresa: 11–50 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante Mais de dois anos
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 9.0 /10
Good product
Avaliado em 04/05/2020
Overall, it's a very helpful tool that keeps our business running. I think it's a great tool and...
Overall, it's a very helpful tool that keeps our business running. I think it's a great tool and would recommend to others.
Vantagens
It makes it easy to schedule our team's days and weeks while also prioritizing projects. It also is helpful per team member to keep track of your projects, and set milestones for the projects ahead of time.
Desvantagens
The only thing I don't like about this software is when you shift things around if a new project comes in or an old drops off, it's a little challenging to do because you have to click every single element after that project. Would be easier if there was a "bump" feature of some sort.
- Setor: Software
- Porte da empresa: 11–50 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante Mais de um ano
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 6.0 /10
Useful tool for planning team members' time but not the most intuitive
Avaliado em 17/01/2019
Overall, Forecast is a time saver for managing teams, and the feedback from the team members is...
Overall, Forecast is a time saver for managing teams, and the feedback from the team members is that it helps co-ordinate their week ahead and know what they need to be working on. If they can work on improving the design and layout, it could be the perfect team management system.
Vantagens
Forecast's direct integration with Harvest (time tracking) makes it a simple and easy process to assign tasks to a team member in Forecast and have it automatically appear in Harvest for them to log time against, helping streamline the process and reducing the number of steps.
Desvantagens
While the interface for Forecast is fairly easy to use, it isn't all that intuitive. It can be difficult to see what a team member is working on, and if there's a few people on the team, there is a lot of faffing around to open up each team member's list and see what they're assigned to.
- Setor: Biotecnologia
- Porte da empresa: 11–50 funcionários
- Usado Semanal durante 6 a 12 meses
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 9.0 /10
Forecast is great for project management for timelines/resources -- goodbye static gant charts.
Avaliado em 03/07/2018
We get an agreed upon view of what is going on -- our management knows the project schedules and...
We get an agreed upon view of what is going on -- our management knows the project schedules and our employees know where they will be allocated in the future. That also means we can prevent time collisions for project planning purposes and figure out where we went wrong if timelines are missed.
Vantagens
The reporting and planning of project timelines is so simple with forecast. Once you learn where the UI controls are, it is easy to report over timelines and view data. I love that you can zoom in and out between how granular data is. It is really easy to tell what is going with just one glance at the screen.
Desvantagens
Setting up clients, employees and projects can be cumbersome. Once the entire thing is set up, it is easy to modify or edit -- but getting our things in order to get it all inside of forecast took some time. That combined with slower page load times on the app (when we were using it at least) made it a bear to onboard.
- Setor: Serviços e tecnologia da informação
- Porte da empresa: 11–50 funcionários
- Usado Mensal durante 6 a 12 meses
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 0.0 /10
An early beta product that doesn’t work, with a premium product price and arrogant culture
Avaliado em 12/03/2022
When we raised issues with the product, they refused to accept the premise of the issue and...
When we raised issues with the product, they refused to accept the premise of the issue and ridiculed us. When it finally became impossible to reject the obvious flaws in the product, they asked us to help them design the solutions. I have no issues giving ideas to a startup to help them improve the product, but I am less inclined to do so after being treated poorly.
Vantagens
What it is supposed to do, in theory, is a great concept. However, in practice, it doesn’t deliver and is a waste of time and money.
Desvantagens
The product has many fundamental flaws. For example, if you charge a deposit for a project via Forecast, it doesn’t actually credit the deposit against completed work. It is a half baked beta project.
- Setor: Consultoria de gestão
- Porte da empresa: 11–50 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante 1 a 5 meses
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 1.0 /10
Both Forecast and Harvest are good - but the integration is horrible
Avaliado em 15/04/2019
Recommended if you only need one or the other tool ... but don't use it if you want to use the...
Recommended if you only need one or the other tool ... but don't use it if you want to use the (logical) combination.
Vantagens
Every one of the two tools (Harvest / Forecast) does what it should do. Using it is easy as long as you don't want to combine those two tools.
Desvantagens
The integration of Harvest and Forecast (which is meant to go together) does not work at all. The process is not thought through and is highly unintuitive. Just to give you one example. In Harvest Users can't create clients (only admins) but in Forecast everyone can create clients (you can't even change this setting). However to link projects and clients obviously they need to have exactly the same name AND you have to do it manually.
So now that I have trained 30 people in NOT creating a new client (although the tool allows them to) I have learned that if I try to centralize this process to solve the problem described above I cannot archive a project only in one of those 2 tools which means that now I have a problem because Forecast is not build to keep a good overview about 100+ projects whereas this is no problem in Harvest....
Really terrible. I believe the product manager (who by the way does not want to talk to me although I asked for) has never actually used the process himself.
- Setor: Serviços e tecnologia da informação
- Porte da empresa: 11–50 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante Mais de um ano
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 5.0 /10
Simple but limited
Avaliado em 02/04/2020
Vantagens
The ability to quickly edit timelines and assignments is fast and easy.
Desvantagens
You can easily integrate it with other services and the reporting is very limited.
- Setor: Serviços e tecnologia da informação
- Porte da empresa: 51–200 funcionários
- Usado Semanal durante Mais de um ano
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 10.0 /10
Great online project allocation software
Avaliado em 29/05/2019
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Forecast is an easy to use application for project allocation. I use this software to set up team members allocation across 9 teams. It's an easy way to see what the allocation is for each one and to keep track of off days as well. The management of the applications is easy and intuitive, set up is quick and team management is as easy as clicking or dragging.
Desvantagens
The way filtering is handled is ok, but it could be better on how to view allocation across multiple team members.
- Setor: Internet
- Porte da empresa: 11–50 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante Mais de dois anos
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 7.0 /10
Great tool for tracking and updating team members' schedules.
Avaliado em 08/11/2017
Vantagens
(1) Great UX, low learning curve
(2) Visual representation of team members schedules, their projects, and tasks
(3) Added functionality for when team members are "overbooked" or "under-booked"
Desvantagens
Less useful for larger projects that require multiple, dedicated team members for a long period of time.
- Setor: Internet
- Porte da empresa: 11–50 funcionários
- Usado Semanal durante 6 a 12 meses
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 8.0 /10
Forecast is great lightweight tool for planning project and team capacity.
Avaliado em 06/03/2018
Easy to use capacity planning software for understanding the capacity of my teams!
Easy to use capacity planning software for understanding the capacity of my teams!
Vantagens
I'm a project manager who has tried MANY different forecasting tools. I was frequently frustrated by forecasting tools that were too exact and cumbersome for agile planning for small teams. Forecast is a great lightweight tool for estimating and understanding capacity of your team in one view.
Desvantagens
This tool would make my life even easier if it had some type of automated reporting that would give me historical data on my teams capacity and project durations for future planning.
- Setor: Design
- Porte da empresa: 11–50 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante Mais de um ano
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 6.0 /10
Its really good
Avaliado em 06/04/2021
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I really like how it connects together, when I am working on a task, I can just choose that specific tasks, without me writing it. Also I like that it is an app. You can have it in your computer, not the browser.
Desvantagens
I would not use it myself because it is a bit too expensive for me.
- Setor: Software
- Porte da empresa: 51–200 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante 6 a 12 meses
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 4.0 /10
One click forecasting that integrates with Harvest
Avaliado em 13/08/2019
We use Forecast because of its integration with Harvest. Unfortunately, we are not usually able to...
We use Forecast because of its integration with Harvest. Unfortunately, we are not usually able to use it for much beyond its visual representations of individual team schedules week-to-week because of the lack of reporting tools. It requires a lot of additional work inside Excel to filter down to anything useful.
Vantagens
Harvest integration ties in with your existing projects
Desvantagens
Non-existent reporting means you need to export a CSV and create your own reports.
- Setor: Serviços e tecnologia da informação
- Porte da empresa: 2–10 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante 1 a 5 meses
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 10.0 /10
Super easy software for managing teams
Avaliado em 05/04/2019
Love it
Love it
Vantagens
I use this daily for scheduling projects and forecasting who will be available to work on what in the company. This is a great price of software...the subtle micro-interactions are a nice touch.
Desvantagens
I wish it was easier to modify multiple peoples schedules at once.
- Usado Semanal durante 6 a 12 meses
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Tool that can help to take the hassle out of team utilisation planning
Avaliado em 14/03/2018
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We use Harvest to track time spent working on clients and so we use Forecast by Harvest as it fully integrates. Being able to filter between teams e.g. client team and product team makes it easy to see how people are spending time and where there are opportunities to re-distribute work.
Desvantagens
It can be easy to accidentally create people in Forecast that aren't linked to a Harvest entry which means you have to remove the person and start again. This tools pretty basic and doesn't offer much historical reporting on how the team have been performing over time.
- Setor: Publicidade e marketing
- Porte da empresa: 11–50 funcionários
- Usado Semanal durante 6 a 12 meses
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 9.0 /10
Gantt Charts FTW!
Avaliado em 28/02/2019
We use Forecast with Harvest to suck in projects and schedule the work our creatives will be...
We use Forecast with Harvest to suck in projects and schedule the work our creatives will be working on. It serves as a pipeline so we know who's busy and who's got capacity.
Vantagens
Super slick way to schedule people's work and see where the bottlenecks lie in our future workflow.
Desvantagens
Wish you could choose to not schedule people and schedule only projects/tasks instead. Sometimes we don't know who will be working on what until it's time to be worked on.
- Setor: Publicidade e marketing
- Porte da empresa: Profissional autônomo
- Usado Diariamente durante 1 a 5 meses
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 10.0 /10
I love it!
Avaliado em 23/03/2018
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I've been looking for a tool that helps me plan my availability and capacity in advance for ages and I've recently found this one. It's amazing and does what it says on the tin. It's so intuitive, I didn't even need the how-tos or any other instructions to get started.
Desvantagens
It needs a web app. It works on mobile but not very well and basically shows you the desktop version. Far too much scrolling.