Time is a core unit of a consulting firm. Every billable hour logged or missed has a direct impact on revenue, project margins, and the accuracy of your invoices. Building good time tracking practices as part of the business foundation gives firm leaders visibility over project health, helps identify scope creep before it becomes a problem, and provides the data needed to resource and forecast with confidence. These guides cover timesheet best practices, building consistent time logging habits across your team, and how to turn billable (and non-billable) hour data into better decisions across your whole firm.
Turning an Operational Discipline Into a Growth Engine
Novigi has an impressive story. Since launching in 2016, they’ve scaled to 550 staff across six offices and two countries, while becoming the fastest-growing professional services firm on the AFR Fast 100 - their story is worth studying.
Tracking Time Off, the Missing Strategic Link in Your Resource Planning
”When new work comes in, we have the right people, ready to go. Winning work and protecting the team, we never have to choose just one.” How often can you confidently say the same? Facing resourcing questions about upcoming projects can sound simple, but if your schedules are built on assumptions and capacity is only estimated, face it, your resource planning is under-engineered!
Projectworks Product Update: January 2026
Happy New Year! To kick things off, we're sharing our new, smoother connection between Schedule, Resourcing, and Forecasting. Plus, do you use our QuickBooks Online or HubSpot integrations? We've added new QBO classes and enabled HubSpot Line Items to create Budgets in Projectworks, saving you valuable billable time.
In the early stages of your consulting firm’s practice, tracking billable hours with spreadsheets was good enough. Your focus was on delivering high-quality work, and your relationship with your clients operated on implicit trust.
As a consulting firm owner, your “rockstar” consultant – the one who handles the most complex projects and requires the least amount of oversight – is actually your biggest flight risk. And not because they are in such high demand; but because they are so good at what they do, they are “first call” on projects, and that can lead to burnout if their billable hours are not planned and managed carefully.
Receiving a phone call from a client about an invoice is one of the more dreaded moments in consulting. You are not only being put on the defensive about work you performed on their behalf, you have to answer questions while trying to recall a specific meeting that occurred weeks ago, or the details of a complex revision that added time to the project scope. Worst of all, your relationship with the client started deteriorating the moment they saw the invoice. So, in addition to justifying your billable hours, you have to make up for the “trust gap” and rebuild your relationship.
Learn how modern time tracking software like Projectworks helps consultants capture every billable minute, increasing your firm’s revenue and profitability.
Learn how rounding down hours on your timesheets leads to lost revenue and why switching to dedicated time tracking software is the solution.
When it comes to time tracking, no-one needs another “where to click” tutorial. The real challenge is creating a daily habit that gives you clean, connected data – so you staff smarter, bill faster, and catch risk early. Here’s a practical approach to consulting time tracking used by high-performing firms, with examples of how teams run it in Projectworks.
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Ready to boost your billable hours? Here’s how top consultants use time tracking software make every hour count.
Did you know 22.3% of global time entries are submitted after the week they’re due? Discover an easy way to avoid this problem at your firm with targeted time tracking software.
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Engineering projects can be challenging to manage, especially when it comes to tracking time and resources.
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Modern professional service businesses often need to manage a hybrid workforce. Whether your consultants are delivering on-site, working remotely, or attending client meetings, professional time tracking software makes billing hours and attributing time to clients precise and easy.
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Developer time tracking software is a critical for software teams providing their services to clients.
Your inventory is your time. If you aren't tracking it with precision, you aren't just losing minutes, you’re losing margin. While "time is money" is a cliché, for a growing professional services firm, it is the difference between a profitable quarter and a massive write-off.
In the early stages of your consulting firm’s practice, tracking billable hours with spreadsheets was good enough. Your focus was on delivering high-quality work, and your relationship with your clients operated on implicit trust.
As a consulting firm owner, your “rockstar” consultant – the one who handles the most complex projects and requires the least amount of oversight – is actually your biggest flight risk. And not because they are in such high demand; but because they are so good at what they do, they are “first call” on projects, and that can lead to burnout if their billable hours are not planned and managed carefully.
Receiving a phone call from a client about an invoice is one of the more dreaded moments in consulting. You are not only being put on the defensive about work you performed on their behalf, you have to answer questions while trying to recall a specific meeting that occurred weeks ago, or the details of a complex revision that added time to the project scope. Worst of all, your relationship with the client started deteriorating the moment they saw the invoice. So, in addition to justifying your billable hours, you have to make up for the “trust gap” and rebuild your relationship.