Your Resource Planning & Forecasting Command Center
Parallax’s resource planning software unifies executives, delivery and sales to determine capacity and resource needs with certainty. Easily assess utilization, balance workloads, and match the best resources to the right projects for optimal team performance.

Parallax connects the operational tools your teams are using today – time tracking, CRM, project management – to curate a central source of truth for strategic, forward-looking orchestration. Oh…and you get to stop cobbling together spreadsheets to make sense of resource plans and utilization. Sanity for the win!
Why Leading Agencies and Studios Choose Parallax
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Billable Utilization

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Revenue

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Revenue Per Billable Employee

“With Parallax, utilization information is right in front of me. I can forecast while also looking back at historical utilization. I have a lot of clarity about what’s going on with my team and whether we have the project work to support the staff that we have.”
Kristen DiCamillo | Managing Partner, HUSH
What You Get with Parallax Resource Management & Planning Software

Billable Capacity Tracking
See current utilization and future capacity to confidently take on new work and when. Scenario plan with deals in pipeline to see effects on capacity by role to get proactive bidding on the right work. Know precisely the roles and when to hire to keep your growth humming.

Resource Forecasting & Assignments
Get proactive with resource assignments on projects using forecasts on incoming demand. Turn project planning into a science with auto-
generated resource plans to streamline resource allocation. Maximize utilization for all team members by evaluating and adjusting workloads of your talent pools – in real time. Finally say goodbye to the weekly spreadsheet resourcing scramble.

Project Health Tracking
Your crystal ball for project health – see the financial snapshot of deals sold vs actuals, on demand. Go further to forecast projected revenue and total project costs based on actuals. Adjust plans early in the project to align with clients on variance from original scope. We have your margin’s back.

Team-Wide Visibility
Unify your executive, operations, delivery and sales teams with a central source of truth. Sales and delivery collaborate on deals and make sure the right resources are in place for incoming work. Project managers can keep projects and budgets on track and have an accurate view of people’s capacity. Leadership and finance teams have a sense of performance today, and a forecasted view of utilization and profitability for tomorrow.

“With Parallax, we can easily get an idea of actuals versus estimates. Based on that, we can think through how we can plan resources better in the future.”
Danielle Morgan
Senior Product Manager, Airship

“Our resource planning meetings take half the time because everybody has accurate plans in Parallax. We’re not looking at clunky spreadsheets with people’s names attached to jobs”
Kristen DiCamillo
Managing Partner, HUSH

“The Parallax Team Has Been Amazing To Work With. They Have Been In Our Shoes And Understand The Challenges That We Face. They Have Repeatedly Gone Above And Beyond Sharing Their Experiences And Recommendations. This Advice Alone Has Been Worth The Price Of The Product.”
Alex Robinson
CEO, Atomic Robot
How It Works
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1. Resource plans
Auto-generated resource plans
Once a deal is closed-won, Parallax creates an auto-generated resource plan based on skills needed and capacity of team members with those skills.
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2. Project shaping
Project shaping/Resource allocation
From the auto-generated resource plans, you can further refine based on more detailed needs of the project. Easily filter for unassigned or unstaffed roles across all team members.
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3. Forecasts
Capacity forecasts
Allocation of people on projects automatically earmarks team members time to give leadership, delivery and sales teams a view on projects they can sell, timing of those projects, and who’s available/not available for those projects. See total capacity, total billable capacity, remaining project hours, sales pipeline allocations, and actuals.
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4. Project initiation
Project initiation
Once a project has been fully allocated, the project gets kicked off and creates spaces and assignments of tasks in your time tracking system – automatically. This eliminates manual reentry. Parallax becomes the source of truth for all rate data.
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5. Project alerts
Active project alerts
Parallax automatically notifies you on items such as unallocated time, projects over budget, unassigned roles, past start dates, and past end dates – the things that need your attention today.
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6. Snapshot plan
Snapshot plan vs actual
Parallax takes a snapshot of the deal you sold, from your CRM, and tracks costs to the original bid.
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7. Forecasted burn
Forecasted burn vs budget
Gives project managers a detailed view into project target revenue, target cost, actual revenue, actual cost, and projected revenue and cost.







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Frequently Asked Questions About Resource Management
Why is resource planning important?
Proper resource planning (ie: staffing, capacity planning) is the bedrock of almost every forecast done in a professional services firm. If our resource management processes are contributing to incorrect or misleading resource plans, our understanding of simple things like revenue forecasts, utilization, and when to hire are inherently flawed and therefore lead to poor business decisions.
How often should we be meeting to discuss resource plans?
A weekly meeting cadence provides the right amount of discipline to capture these changes and put forth the most up to date forecast available. We recommend a clear agenda centered around resolving resource conflicts starting with your highest priority accounts.
How often should we be updating our resource plans?
Planning in a professional services business naturally exists in a very fluid environment. Project plans change by the day as new information is uncovered and client priorities change. In order to reflect a proper forecast we need to capture these changes weekly prior to joining our resourcing meeting.
How often should we be reviewing plans v. actuals?
The relationship between what we thought was going to happen (plans) against what actually happened (actuals) is one of the best tools at your disposal for validating the strength of your forecasts. The process of identifying and reacting to these variances should match your cadence of collecting timesheets and happen each week after doing so.
How far in the future should we be looking when forecasting?
The goal is to see out as far as we can by making weekly adjustments to everything we know. However, the further out we look the more variation we can expect. By focusing on the next 6-8 weeks and validating that your team has enough to work on (and verifying no one is about to burn out) you’ll be working off of the most accurate information at your disposal and ensuring you get ahead of any major issues.
What are best practices for managing capacity and/or utilization?
Managing your team’s capacity and therefore utilization requires a disciplined process that generates the best picture available of what the future might hold for us. Managing the myriad variables between sales and delivery is inherently challenging. Organizations often invent processes to make sense of it all, but just end up adding more labor to the problem which creates an even hazier picture. The best practices are simple: don’t overcomplicate by reinventing good hygiene and democratize the load across the organization. Everyone plays a role in good forecasting.
How granular should resource planning get?
A 10 piece puzzle is infinitely easier to solve than a 1,000 piece puzzle and resource planning is no different. Managing a fragmented resourcing picture leads to an out of date and inaccurate look into your forecast as the amount of time to keep all of those pieces up to date is a barrier to updating. The goal should be frequent, high-level updates that capture the ever changing needs of the projects. Precision is the enemy of accuracy.
How important is it to be diligent with time tracking?
We’re playing the game of trying to predict the future, and humans are inherently bad at it. We need a way of verifying that our prediction of what was going to happen actually happened, and time tracking is the easiest way to do that. The diligence in weekly time tracking allows you to get a new set of facts in each week that you can use to dial in your forecast and drive up confidence in your decision making.