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Example Uses for Project Management Software

Intervals was built to manage our small and multidisciplinary team. Our original intention — which still holds true today — was that our project management software would be flexible and customizable enough to help small teams like ours manage their work while also keeping track of their time and efforts.

Here are just a few use cases for understanding how Intervals is being used in different industries:

Web Design & Development

• Track subcontractor time
• Document procedures in one central place
• Gain knowledge about procedures and best practices
• Learn how much effort each project takes
• Keep a detailed history of every work request
• Bill for maintenance hours and small jobs

Agile Development

• Track time spent on sprints
• Manage backlogs to keep track of priorities and groomed stories
• Schedule milestones to execute sprints/iterations
• View burn-up activity directly on milestones
• Track your velocity in hours
• Compare estimated hours against actual to refine your estimates

IT Services

• Track client work requests
• Track time on every ticket
• Document knowledge on fixes and best practices
• Analyze your billable and unbillable time
• See what types of tasks are the most profitable
• Use the work request queue to funnel and prioritize requests

Creative Agencies

• Track how much time each job requires
• Find out if your current team is maximized
• Learn which employees and contractors impact the bottom line
• Analyze your billable and unbillable time
• Clearly document the high and low seasons
• Determine the value of any given client
• Track fixed costs for projects

Startup Company

• Centralize all of your internal IT, marketing, and product development efforts
• Track all of your hours to see if effort is going where it should
• Find out if you have enough people to get things done
• Accurately track your projects and hit deadlines
• Set goals for team productivity and track them in real-time
• Keep detailed work histories on every task

Remote Teams

• Find out what your team is really working on
• Measure your team's efforts and increase productivity
• Keep track of daily efforts in real-time
• Centralize all of your workflows, know-how, and procedures in one place

Operations Management

• Centralize ticket management with robust email integration
• Manage issues while tracking the actual time it takes
• Prioritize and log histories of requests from departments
• Keep detailed notes and versions of documents around issues
• Track every action taken on work requests from inception through completion
• Easily filter, organize, and group tickets
• Learn whose requests are taking the most time and energy

Department of a Larger Company

• Affordable alternative to cumbersome enterprise software
• Easily assign tasks and track time
• Determine if your employees efforts are properly aligned with department goals
• Document workflow to help train new employees

Freelancers

• Manage projects, tasks, and time with one application
• Build detail invoices for billing clients
• Stay on schedule
• Keep your workload organized and prioritized

Companies that Rely on Subcontractors

• One central place to keep all of your work history
• Manage remote teams from one app
• Consolidate all of your time tracking efforts in one central location
• Set priorities and due dates for tasks
• Pay your subcontractors based on accurate timesheets