Project Management Simplified for Engineering Design Firm

Client: Impes Innovation Industry: Engineering & Design Services Published: Sep 16, 2025
Project Management Simplified for Engineering Design Firm
  • Custom project management web application
  • Project creation, updating, and archiving
  • Man-hour planning & forecasting system
  • Time tracking (manual + timer-based)
  • Role-based team & access management
  • Progress dashboards (burn rate, utilization, Gantt)
  • Reports & analytics (project, discipline, individual)
  • Excel/PDF export functionality
  • Notifications & weekly summaries
  • Automation that sparked industry-wide adoption

Challenge

The client’s team was investing the bulk of their man-hours into low-revenue projects (Project A) while high-revenue projects (Project B) were getting neglected. The owner had zero visibility into where the team’s time was going, causing profit leaks and resource misallocation.

Approach

We designed and developed a custom project management tool centered around man-hour tracking and allocation. Instead of generic task management, our solution built a profit-first dashboard that showed exactly how time was being spent, stage by stage, project by project, discipline by discipline.

Results

Workflows became smooth, transparent, and data-driven.
The owner gained instant visibility into project health, man-hour burn rates, and team utilisation.
At least 10–15 peers from the same industry visited to see the system in action, sparking a sense of FOMO.
Multiple businesses contacted Shizzy to build similar tools.
The client shifted from “where did the time go?” to “this is where time earns us profit.”