Insights for Professional Services Teams

Time tracking tools are drifting into the surveillance category. Two decades of research suggest monitoring rarely improves performance — and for firms that bill by the hour, it measures the wrong thing entirely.

Most consulting firms track time in a spreadsheet, and for a while it works fine. Here's what decades of research say about when it stops working — and the specific threshold that matters more than headcount.

A direct comparison of Harvest and HourSquad for consulting and auditing teams — pricing structure, features, and the specific cases where each one wins. Written by someone who used Harvest for five years.

The most capable project management platform is often the wrong one for a consulting team. There's decades of research explaining exactly why — and it has nothing to do with the software being badly built.

Migrating time tracking platforms doesn't have to mean lost data, a stressed-out team, or a month of chaos. Five practices that make the difference between a smooth transition and a painful one.

Good design isn't decoration. From the birth of the graphical interface to the dozens of tools we tested before building our own, how a tool looks and feels directly shapes whether teams actually use it — with real screens from HourSquad.

In April 2026, Clockify significantly reduced what its free plan includes. For consulting and auditing teams that bill by the hour, the changes are worth understanding before you build your workflow around them.

Trying golf for the first time revealed something about muscle memory that applies directly to how professional services teams build (or fail to build) the habit of tracking their work.

Passive time tracking promises zero-effort logging. But for consulting and auditing teams that bill by the hour and manage budgets in real time, the gaps between what silent trackers capture and what the business actually needs are significant.

After 20 years migrating from system to system, here's what I learned about why most tools built for business management fall short when it comes to running real projects.

After Bending Spoons acquired Harvest and restructured its pricing, thousands of consulting and auditing teams are reconsidering their options. A practitioner's perspective on what happened, what it means, and what to do next.

The debate over fractional time tracking in consulting and auditing teams — where rounding costs real money, and where too much precision kills productivity.

What happens to professional services time tracking when consultants let the habit slip — and how to rebuild it across your whole team, from a 30-year practitioner.

As 34,000 founders and investors gather in Rio de Janeiro for Web Summit Rio 2026, one thing separates the startups that scale from the ones that stall: how they manage their most limited resource — time.

The teams that put humans on the moon didn't have perfect conditions. They had discipline, adaptability, and relentless visibility into what was happening at every moment.

Budget overruns in consulting aren't random. They follow predictable patterns — and once you see them, they become preventable.

Practical strategies for consulting and auditing team leads who need real visibility into how their team's hours are being spent.