Float is the #1 rated resource management software for scheduling projects and tracking team capacity. Loved by over 4,500 professional services teams that use it to make better planning decisions 💙 We help every organization plan their work time better because time is too valuable to be planned poorly. As a fully remote team living our best work life we: 🌎 Work asynchronously across 15 countries 🤝 Serve 4,500 customers in 150 countries ♻️ Strive for sustainable and profitable growth
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Float is the #1 rated resource management software for scheduling projects and tracking team capacity. Loved by over 4,500 professional services teams that use it to make better planning decisions 💙 Created by former agency folks who understand the chaos of spreadsheet planning, Float is a fast, collaborative, cloud-based, and visual tool for effective planning. As a B Corp business, we’re committed to being values-led, sustainable, and profitable. With Float, you can 👥 Plan resources across multiple projects 🛠️ Allocate work with a live view of team skills, capacity, and availability 💻 Reallocate work and adjust schedules with confidence 🤸 Quickly adapt to shifting priorities with drag-and-drop scheduling, easy edits, and live previews 🔮 Forecast capacity and monitor budgets with scheduled vs. actual hours (time tracking) 👀 Visualize your data with easy-to-read reports 💰 Monitor budgets and compare your estimates vs. actuals with in-built time tracking
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Managing capacity in creative ops is 40% art, 40% science, and 20% 🤞🤞🤞 that your spreadsheets don’t break! Join us for a 30-minute live session with Justin Watt and Jacquie Ford who are ready to share some practical tactics and 🌶️ takes.
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⏰ In just one week, we’re bringing together two Creative Ops leaders to answer your most pressing questions about capacity LIVE. 🎙️ Meet our experts: Jacquie Ford is the current Head of Operations at News Corp, and a former ops lead at Meta and Canva Justin Watt is the former Director of Operations at Metalab, now founder of Switchboard Join us and get practical, tactical advice from the best in the business. All you need to do is: ✍️ Register here: [https://lnkd.in/dtgabgTd] 📆 Save the date (10 September) 🙋 Drop your questions in the comments If you’ve got the capacity, we’d love to see you there! 😉 Keen but can’t make it? Register for a copy of the session recording.
...we need to talk about capacity 🫣 You know it, we know it: managing capacity in Creative Ops is 40% art, 40% science, and 20% crossing your fingers that your spreadsheets don’t break. You may have questions like: • How do we stop playing a constant game of resource Tetris? • Potential client in the pipeline: can we take them on (and how much will it cost us)? • What does effective scenario planning *actually* look like? On September 10, we’ll have two Resource Management pros ready to answer them in a free, 30-min live session. Join us! Instructions below👇
Introducing Float’s latest update: Placeholders📍 Say bye-bye to guessing your future resource allocations. With Placeholders, you can add new and improved… well, placeholders!, to your schedule—like the roles and skills you already know you’ll need six months from now, the new hires you are about to onboard, and the almost-signed-off projects that are currently in the pipeline. (You can even book in non-human resources for upcoming projects, because hey, we all know what happens when there is only one 360-degree camera in the studio and everybody wants to use it, yesterday.) See how to add Placeholders to your planning workflows here → https://lnkd.in/df_xirEA
There’s a fine line between improving productivity and overworking your team. One step in the wrong direction and it’s hello, all-nighters and context-switching; goodbye, work-life balance 🫠 What do YOU look out for the most?
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Your team members are not just resources: they’re individuals with their own work styles, paces, and interests. Getting to know these unique qualities will help you make smarter decisions around workloads for them (and, in turn, for your organization).
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🔥🔥🔥 Friday hot take: there’s nothing wrong with 100% utilization… …if the 100% accounts for tasks *outside of project work.* At Float, we encourage 100% utilization with the understanding that this percentage must account for non-billable tasks. Say you are a professional services team with a 40-hour work week → your designers could be 100% allocated in Float, with the 100% broken down into: • 34 hours of billable utilization spent on client deliverables And then: • 2.5 hours of internal meetings, synced from their Google calendar • This week’s 1 hour-long internal training session • 2.5 hours for all other admin and ad-hoc tasks—because we all know they happen every. single. week, and pretending they don’t won’t make them go away 😉
🚨 We have a new open role for a Webflow designer/developer—and if you are applying, you might find this 10-point guide to what makes a “Hell Yes” application useful! It’s written by our Director of Design Cameron Rickersey, whom this role will report to. We hope it helps 🤞
🚨 Open role 🚨 We’re searching for a talented Webflow Designer to play a huge role in shaping the next phase of our growth! Your mission? Create a best-in-class experience on Float.com and make a big impact through amazing design that gets results. 🌍 Location: Anywhere 💰Compensation: $107,588 USD 👇 Learn more about the role in the video from Siobhan Hayes, our Director of Marketing. And tag the best Webflow Designers you know in the comments (where you’ll also find a link to the job description) 👀🔗