Insights

Ideas and stories that reflect on time and business.

September 5, 2017

How VICE’s creative agency predicts the future with Forecast

From their provocative documentaries to their incisive reporting, VICE has been a force in the media since it first exploded into popularity at the turn of the millennia. The company now represents the success of a veritable media empire, with...

August 8, 2017

Behind The Onion’s hyper-productive workflow

Part of our company mission is to help people work smarter—and that doesn’t stop with our products. We believe we can all benefit from sharing the collective wisdom of our community. So, from time to time, we dig into the inner-workings of our...

July 27, 2017

Using Zapier to improve your Harvest workflow

In this guest post Kim Kadiyala explains how using Zapier to connect Harvest to your favorite tools can make your team’s workflow even more efficient. Like thumbprints or snowflakes, no two workflows are quite the same. Every company has their own...

March 17, 2017

One is the loneliest number

The second installment in our series of interviews with project managers brings us to London for a conversation with Holly Davis, an agile project manager at Deeson. She has worked as a PM at White October and has served as a contributor at Every...

December 8, 2016

A producer wrestles with the ambiguity of her title

All sorts of people use Harvest to track their time, but we know Harvest holds a special place in the heart of many project managers. We’ve had the opportunity to meet a lot of these PMs and hear about the unique challenges of a job that doesn’t...

July 20, 2016

Focusing Your Sales Efforts with Time Tracking and Team Scheduling

Time tracking and team scheduling are two familiar tricks of the trade for project managers and business owners, who rely on them to keep projects on track and keep tabs on the health of the business. But these tools can also provide a wealth of...

June 9, 2016

In the Field: How ‘Discernment’ Allows Anchour to Do Great Work for Its Clients

Part of our company mission is to help people work smarter—and that doesn’t stop with our products. We believe we can all benefit from sharing the collective wisdom of our community. That’s why we’ve created this column called In the Field. In it...

May 5, 2016

Parting Ways with Difficult Clients (Using Data)

Letting go of clients is a painful decision. You become invested in their business and want them to succeed. But sometimes the economics of a client relationship just don’t work out. At the end of the day, every business needs to turn a profit. If...

December 9, 2015

How a Digital Agency Used Harvest to Re-Examine Its Business

In this guest post we learn how Shareef Defrawi, President and Founder of digital marketing agency Bonafide, used data gleaned from Harvest to make three vital improvements to his business. I resisted time tracking for a long time—way longer than I...

November 19, 2015

Using Harvest to Automate Tasks & Improve Work Happiness

Here at Harvest we’re always interested in hearing how customers use our software. A few weeks ago Stephen Thomas gave a talk at the Digital PM Summit that mentioned Harvest as a way to help bring some creativity, flexibility, and innovation to your...

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