Project health you can check, not chase
Will this project make the profit you planned? Operating tracks every running project against its budget — and because it knows how each one bills, it shows what over- or under-delivery actually means in money. Per project, per person, in advance.
Read overruns against your contract
Operating knows how each project bills, so the same hours overrun reads correctly: margin eaten, revenue earned, or a cap being approached.
See budget trouble in advance
Follow the trajectory while the project runs — on pace to land over or under, by how much, and who is driving it.
Health across the whole portfolio
Build list views over every running project — profitability, budget spend, over and under — and drill into any number that looks wrong.
Spot overages and underutilization
More hours than planned is bad news on fixed price, good news on time-and-materials, and a balancing act on capped T&M. Operating knows each project's billing model, so the same hours overrun reads correctly everywhere: as margin eaten, revenue earned, or a cap being approached.
Fixed price: hour overruns eat profit — watch it as it builds
Time-and-materials: under-delivery leaves billable revenue on the table
Capped T&M: optimize hours toward the cap — not past it
Forecast project budget health
The worst budget news is the kind you get after the invoice. Operating shows the trajectory while the project runs: on pace to come in over or under, by how much, and who's driving it — person by person against their planned hours.
Over/under budget visible in advance, overage quantified
Per person: who's running over or under plan
Hours and expenses both counted — the whole spend
Portfolio-level project health insights
One project's health is a status; every project's health is how the firm is doing. Build list views across all running projects — profitability, budget spend, over/under — scan them in seconds, and drill into any number that looks wrong.
List views across projects: profitability, budget spend, over/under
Sort and scan the portfolio, drill into any project
The numbers leadership asks for, current by default
Why read project health by billing model?
Hours over plan mean nothing until you know how the project bills.
The same overrun is a loss on fixed price, extra revenue on time-and-materials, and a ceiling to manage on capped T&M. A tracker that only counts hours leaves you doing that translation in your head, for every project, every week.
Project health is most useful while the work is still going: the time to catch a project heading over budget is while you can still re-plan it.
So the numbers move while the work happens: how far over or under the project is on pace to land, by how much, and whose hours are driving it. Expenses are counted alongside the hours, because the whole spend is what decides the margin.
One project's health is only a status. Built as list views across the whole portfolio, the same data answers what leadership actually asks — which projects are making money right now — and lets you drill straight into whichever number looks wrong.
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