The Power of OKRs for Professional Services Companies
Objectives and Key Results, what most people call “OKRs,” is more than a buzzy acronym used across the tech community. This article explains the power...
Focal Point: Insights from the Parallax Blog
Discover the best practices for sales pricing, project accounting and resource management needed to evolve your digital agency.
How To Strive For 100% Productive Utilization: Complete Guide
This article discusses how digital services companies and tech consultancies can achieve a 100% productive utilization rate by pairing their billable utilization targets of 75-85%...
5 Best Mavenlink (Kantata) Alternatives And Competitors To Consider
Nearly all decisions that leaders of digital service companies make rely on accurate insights and forecasts — but to gather those insights and create those...
Uncomplicating the Complicated: What Utilization (Really) Is and How to Calculate It
Utilization and capacity planning can feel like an impossible equation to solve. But while it’s complex in nature, it can be simplified by focusing on the metrics that matter most.
Modern Work is Changing: Parallax’s Takeaways on Billing the Creative Process, Timesheets, and “Hustle Culture”
One of the main reasons agencies and development studios struggle to break the cycle of too much or too little work is because they haven’t considered how poor resource planning leads to confusion, stress, and burnout. Without mastering forecasting basics, this cycle will continue.
Parallax Expands Capacity and Utilization Planning Capabilities to Account for Holidays and Paid Time Off
New planning features in Parallax account for employee PTO and holidays for more accurate and easier capacity planning. Read more.
Projector PSA vs Replicon vs Parallax: Which will work for you?
Digital services companies have a lot of choices today regarding the solutions they leverage to operationalize their businesses. See why leaders are choosing Parallax —...
Driving Strategic Growth Requires Mastering the Basics
Digital services companies stuck in reactive business heroics should focus on three key habits to drive smarter performance.
Hustle Culture is Canceled
Retaining your best people has never been more important. By replacing hustle culture with mission culture, leaders can evolve away from dysfunction.