Where did we spend our billable time last week? Answering this question lets you know if you’re servicing too many or too few clients or if your dependent on a few large projects or are spreading yourself too thin over many smaller projects. In our weekly professional services dashboard, I used a Marimekko chart to show billable hours by client and within each client by project. Here’s an example:
It looks like our top five clients make up about 80% of the total billable hours. These clients have one or two large projects. This is probably a healthy mix of clients and projects. I’d be concerned if there were many smaller clients (under 10% of total billings) or many smaller projects. I’d also be concerned if one client made up over 40% of billable hours. If you look at this Marimekko every week, you can develop your own rules for what is a good mix of clients and projects.
In my dashboard, I also did a similar Marimekko for the upcoming week. You can see this Marimekko and the rest of the dashboard in the SlideShare deck below:
