Decimal hours: how to convert timesheets without changing the bill
An hour and thirty minutes is 1.5 hours. The expensive mistakes happen when a timesheet, an export, and an invoice disagree about that.
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Getting started
Rolling out time tracking, switching tools, and the first ninety days.
How to switch time tracking tools without losing your history
The migration is not the hard part. Keeping your old reports reconcilable and not double-billing during the changeover is, and both are decided before you start.
A time tracking policy worth actually writing
One page, eight decisions. Most agencies have none of this written down, which is why their billable percentage measures interpretation rather than work.
Why timesheets get reconstructed on Friday, and how to stop it
Nobody is lying. Human recall of a working day decays within hours, and every agency's data quietly reflects that. What to change so the numbers describe the week that happened.
How to track billable hours without hating it
Most time tracking advice assumes the problem is discipline. It usually is not — it is that the system asks for more precision than the work can supply.
Rolling out time tracking without a mutiny
The first ninety days decide whether you get useful data or a compliance exercise. A practical sequence, and the three mistakes that poison it on day one.
Numbers like these, without the spreadsheet
Utilization, effective hourly rate and project margin, straight out of tracked time.
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