Use cases
How small agencies, freelancers and startups organise work when they need to know how many hours each project takes and how many are left.
Each case describes a way of working, not a template: which columns the team uses, how it spreads the week and when it looks at the report. Use them to copy the structure that fits your situation and discard the one that does not.
Project management for a small agency: tasks, hours and estimates in one place
An agency rarely fails for lack of a task board. It fails to see it coming because nobody watches the hours a project is consuming until it is over.
For freelancers: which client is eating your hours
You remember the projects that went well and forget the ones that took twice the hours you had estimated. The report does not.
Project management for a small startup: less ceremony, one number
Before you have a process you have priorities. A board, a calendar and a budget of hours are enough to keep five people aligned without inventing rituals.