'The systems we use are often a reflection of our company's maturity. Spreadsheets are great when there's little complexity -- when there's only a few people on the team and just a few projects in the pipeline. As you grow and your business becomes more complex, spreadsheets become more difficult to maintain, share and collaborate on. Runn helps you keep your data relevant and gives your team real-time access so everyones on the same page.
Project management tools are about what needs to get done, by when, for a specific project. Whether you use Atlassian's Jira, Asana or MS Project—project management tools are essential for every project team.
However, no matter how well you plan out the individual tasks of a project, if you do not have the right resources at the right time, you won't be able to deliver it. This is where Runn fits in. Runn cares about the bigger picture and helps you align people, projects and time across the entire company.
Whether you use Agile, Waterfall, or a mix of both, the need for company-wide resource and capacity planning stays the same. In many ways using an Agile set-up simplifies your life— fixed timeframes, variable scopes. Map out the timeframes and resources dedicated to the project in Runn and manage the scope in your project management tool of choice.
We faced issues around internal forecasting and team allocation. With Runn, we’re able to plan and forecast work, giving us a forward view for the next few months. We can map our pipeline and staff we need to deliver. Runn is intuitive, easy to use, and makes scheduling easier across our professional services.
Suddenly, we were able to plan ahead in a way that we were not able to do previously. What Runn has allowed us to do is look not just two weeks ahead, but to look two or three months down the line to see how certain things are going to add up.
I find myself using Runn all day, every day, it’s a source of truth for our live projects, and it’s also very helpful as a scenario planning tool.
Moving to Runn meant that our whole project management team could keep our future booked work up to date, and reliable projections of our future billing could be generated whenever we need them.
With Runn, we reduced our operational footprint and increased profitability. The synergy between teams is much stronger, and everyone now works from a single source of truth. That means better decisions, faster, so we can achieve more with less.
The capacity planning we had done in Excel - which had taken weeks - well, when we did that same work in Runn, it was completed in two days.
Runn is essential to what we do on a day-to-day basis. It provides a clearer picture into what everyone's working on and makes it much easier for us to move things around.
I go to Runn to look at the status of a given project, where we are at with a client, whether we are tracking towards a particular business goal, the utilisation or billability rate of the team - basically the health of the team and the business.
The capacity planning chart really changed things for us. Being able to drill into a team and see where the cliffs are has been a huge benefit.
One of the best things about Runn, that we haven’t had with previous tools, is being able to add tentative projects.
An amazing tool that has transformed the way we plan, schedule and forecast work in our agency.
