What is Forecast?

Forecast.it is a project portfolio management solution built around features such as resource planning and time tracking, budget estimating, and analytics and reporting, with key third-party integrations.

Categories & Use Cases

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Understand and know how to best utilize your capacity

Easily plan and adjust workloads across the entire resource pool to prevent bottlenecks.

Have everything in one place to groom the backlog, plan the sprint, and track the progress and velocity.

Share real time reports with stakeholders to help them make important decisions

Understand the true cost of each project

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Verified User

Director in Sales (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I wasn’t convinced the product would do what they said, so I asked for a month-to-month payment (instead of an annual commitment). They said this was not possible due to the valuation by their investors. I spent >$10k USD then found out that all the problems I thought were there, were 100% present and it is just vapourware. They disappear once they have your money and the scam is complete. Beware!

Pros

Scam you
Lie
Send invoices
Pad figures for their investors

Cons

Not be vapourware
Deliver what they promise
Focus on users rather than investors

Most Important Features

Scamming my competitors too, hopefully
Lying about its capabilities
Arguing with customers

Return on Investment

Minus $10k USD for the fee
Many, many thousands in lost revenue
Many, many thousands in wasted time

Timothy King View profile

Frontend Developer in Information Technology at Level Interactive (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

Schedule visualization. Harvest makes it very easy to see how many hours of work are being assigned to each individual.
When used with Harvest it makes for a powerful tool for determining how much time was spent on projects in comparison to their estimates.
Data can easily be pulled to make future decisions on project estimates, as well as individual strengths and weaknesses.

Cons

Not as intuitive as its companion software, Harvest. This software takes longer to learn when on-boarding new staff. It is also difficult to view time notes without needing to physically open them up. This could be improved by expanding the "on hover" functionality. Personally, having spent as little time in workflow software is really important, as it gives me more time to code.
Because we use this software to plan schedules, items often fall through the cracks. I would like to see some more sophisticated syncing with not only Harvest but also with Asana.
Lack of integration with Asana. It would be nice to pull data from forecast and display it in Asana. This would be helpful for understanding how much time I have to spend on a project rather than bounce back and forth between web apps.

Return on Investment

Forecast does not integrate with other software in our workflow, and it makes it an entire extra step when it doesn't necessarily need to be. This takes extra time away from my actual job.
Forecast is powerful when used with Harvest, and allows for powerful data-driven decisions in hiring and project estimates. The more informed we are when making decisions and scoping, the more profitable the company can be.
It takes some time to onboard new Employees which can take time away from a profitability or other training.