Adjust pace
A client goes quiet, then wants a push. Change an engagement's hours a week for any stretch, and let the rest of its plan rebalance so you still land on target.
Real life doesn't hold to the plan. Adjust pace reshapes how an engagement's budget gets spent: a new hours-a-week for a period, a month, a quarter, or any span, with every change dated and noted.
Open it from the Engagement tab: Adjust pace in the header, or click a period on an engagement's ribbon to open the editor on that period.
Drag the dial, type a number, or tap a quick button: Pause, Ease, Pace, or Boost. Ease and Boost step below and above the plan. Pace snaps to the rate that lands you on your target, given what you've already tracked.
The header picks the stretch: the Period you clicked, a calendar Month or Quarter, or Custom with any From and To (tick End of the engagement to run to the end). A change can cover one week or run across months.
It leads with the number: hours to spare, over target (into the reserve, still within budget), or over budget, with the date it runs out. The burn-up and the weekly hours strip update as you drag.
Add a short note (launch push, client paused) and Add change. Stack as many as you need, then Save pace. Each change stays in the Pace changes table with its dates, pace, and note.
Rebalance
When your change stops short of the end, turn on Rebalance future periods to stay on target and the untouched weeks absorb it. Push now and they ease; ease now and they lift. They appear in the table as one row marked Rebalanced: the single steady rate that still lands the target.
If the engagement's plan has named phases, they show in the same table marked Plan, as read-only context.
Target
Your target is the share of budget you steer toward: 100% by default, or lower to keep a reserve. Set it from Target % by the pace. The burn-up draws it as the glide beside your tracked hours, so you can see whether you're ahead or behind. Reset to plan clears every change.
On the ribbon
A pace change reads as the ribbon swelling or narrowing, labelled with the new velocity and an ↑ or ↓. Click a stretch to adjust it again. Goals that follow the pace move with it.
A recurring engagement re-paces within its current renewal cycle. The editor is about that cycle's allocation, anything outside it is greyed out, and the change resets at the next renewal.
Once the end date has passed there are no weeks ahead to pace. Adjust pace says it ended and where it closed against its budget.
Owners and admins, or whoever manages the engagement's project or client. A bounded engagement with a budget, or a recurring one. A dollar budget needs a bill rate to convert into hours; the engagement says so if one is missing. An open-ended engagement with no recurrence has no budget window to pace against.
The numbers behind the ribbon: pace, velocity, runway, and the expected curve.
Goals that follow an engagement's pace.