Can you see the future? Forecasting at an agency level

kbasarab

Billable targets, long hours, overtime, no personal time. All of these are typically what you think about challenges in an an agency. Whether you’re a Drupal shop, ad agency, creative agency, etc working against billable hours while balancing client requests can take a toll on your team morale and productivity. But how can we balance client services while avoiding burnout? In this session we’ll cover how to use your numbers to better inform your resource forecasting, how to monitor forecasting and improving this process over time.

Session Outline

  • What problems exist in forecasting?
  • How can we forecast by numbers? Evaluating the numbers.
  • How do we improve forecasting over time? Ensure accountability to the numbers.

About Our Presenters

Kevin Basarab is a Director of Development at Mediacurrent. Starting in Drupal 4.7 Kevin has continued to work with Drupal moving from small newspaper sites to large enterprise builds. At Mediacurrent Kevin helps ensure projects are well resources and developers don’t get pulled in many too directions.

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Session Track

Project Management

Experience Level

Beginner

Drupal Version