Many planning and project management tools assume that every team member has the same availability. In reality, small teams often include a mix of full-time and part-time staff, contractors, flexible schedules, holidays, and planned leave. As a result, a team of ten people rarely has the capacity of ten full-time employees.
How does your team currently answer questions like:
Can we take on another project?
Who has capacity available next month?
Are we overcommitting certain team members?
How do you estimate your team's true capacity?
I know what it’s like when a team starts to outgrow spreadsheet tracking, but moving to enterprise software feels like it would cost too much time and money.
You need to see who has time available, what everyone is working on, and whether projects are progressing towards their deadlines. Setting up and maintaining the tool shouldn’t become another job. That’s one of the reasons I built FlowGrid Tracking & Planning.
To show how it works in practice, I’ve put together an illustrated agency use case.
Meet Sophia Stundenglas, a fictional agency owner. A new client brings three projects with different deadlines. Some colleagues work part-time, and the team already has other commitments.
Sophia checks their monthly availability, breaks the projects into milestones, and assigns tasks. As her colleagues track their time and complete their work, she can review progress and the hours remaining.
The article follows the process with screenshots, from planning the work to handing it over: https://lnkd.in/gUc2kKPn
I've made a small but important change to FlowGrid Tracking & Planning: all features are now free for teams of up to 3 people.
When I started building FlowGrid, the idea was to give small and growing teams one clear place to plan work, track time, manage availability, and understand their workload - without needing several different tools or an overly complicated project management system.
It didn't make much sense to support that idea while keeping some of the most useful team features behind a paid plan.
So there are no feature restrictions on the Free plan anymore. Teams of up to three people can use the full product, including TeamSheet, team availability, capacity planning, and exports.
You only need to upgrade when your team grows beyond three members.
I've written a little more about why I made the change here:
https://lnkd.in/dRDrETGY