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Re: Time Tracking

Subject: Re: Time Tracking
From: quills -at- airmail -dot- net
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 17:49:41 -0500


At 3:43 PM -0500 5/7/02, Lutey Amanda L wrote:

Hello all,

I'm helping my supervisor put together categories for tracking the time
spent on projects. Previously, we just lumped everything together by the
hour, but we now we want to be more specific.

It is the end of the day here and my mind is blanking out on me (combination
of lack of caffeine and being very distracted by the bright blue sky
outside). So far I've come up with research, artwork development,
organization, proofreading, editing, formatting, and of course, writing.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Please email me directly, as I'm on digest.
Thanks!
-Amanda
Email: <mailto: LuteyAmandaL -at- johndeere -dot- com>


This is going to the list as well as directly as requested.

The categories sound ok, but what about administration? Don't you have filing, or other work that is done to complete projects that is not in the above categories? Organization, well as long as you know what you mean by it, it's fine.

Just a warning, you might end up spending more time detailing your work, than you want to. This sort of exercise always looks good, until you try to put it into operation. Then the administration, input and keeping track of the minutes is counter-productive.

And in the final analysis, what are you going to do with this granulation of information. If it's just nice to know, and doesn't add to the bottom line, don't do it.

I worked at a company for ten years where we kept this sort of information on our time sheets, in 15 minute increments. Guess what?

It was never input into any database, it was never applied to project hours. It was manually tabulated and the information was not retreivable. In short, many people wasted a lot of man-hours keeping track of minutiae that was not used, could not be used, and which management didn't use.

So keep it simple!

Scott


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