We run a professional services firm and struggle to find weekly scorecard metrics that actually show operations health before our monthly billing run. What should we be measuring on a weekly basis?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

In a professional services firm, waiting for the monthly billing cycle to review your performance is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror. To get a pulse on your operations weekly, you must track activity-based metrics that occur long before an invoice is generated. Start by tracking weekly billable hours submitted, which ensures your delivery team is staying active and documenting their time. Next, track your work in progress value, which is the total dollar amount of unbilled work currently in production. This tells you if you are building up a massive billing backlog or running out of work. You should also track project milestone compliance, meaning the percentage of active projects that met their planned schedule milestones this week. Finally, look at your utilization rate, which is the percentage of total capacity spent on direct client work. By tracking these four metrics on your weekly scorecard, you get an early warning system. If billable hours drop or work in progress stalls, you will spot the bottleneck weeks before it hits your cash flow. This allows your leadership team to use the Level 10 Meeting™ to identify, discuss, and solve the issue before it damages your monthly revenue.

AI never sits in the room. It works before the Level 10 Meeting to prep the data and after the meeting to capture and track what was decided. The 90 minutes stay human: your leadership team, the scorecard, the issues list, and the IDS conversation.