| February 27th, 2008
We all know that we need to track our time more efficiently at work. Doing so will increase revenues and help us focus more on the important tasks. Tracking our time and tasks in the workplace makes us a better worker. However, there are plenty of other reasons, having nothing to do with your job, […]
| January 31st, 2008
When we track our time accurately and efficiently, we establish a wealth of data for analyzing past efforts and estimating forward. But we need a way to visualize this data to gain any insight from it. Tracking our time in a web-based project management application like Intervals gives us a distinct advantage in this area. […]
| January 25th, 2008
One of the great benefits to a weekly timesheet is that it offers a quantitative perspective of where your time is going. The timesheet helps you visualize how much time you are spending each day on each project, so you can identify which projects are using up too little, or too much, of your time. […]
| August 15th, 2007
Today we are launching a few minor updates to Intervals (14 total). Two of them are directly in response to feedback from Intervals users: 1. Apply the General Timer to a Task Tracking time on tasks is the ideal way of tracking time…especially for reporting. This improvement makes it a little bit easier. When the […]
| July 26th, 2007
Timesheets really aren’t traditional timesheets with the way Intervals handles time tracking. When I hear timesheet I immediately think of a punching in and punching out. Timesheets in Intervals are akin to a weekly view of your time. When we first tinkered with the variety of ways to track time we learned that tracking time […]
| June 13th, 2007
Susan Ward wrote this article on 11 Time Management Tips. Most of us feel maxed out and spread thin these days. I decided to review what she has to say and do a personal assessment on what is working and what is not working in “Managing the chaos”. Susan’s 11 points and how I rate […]
| February 6th, 2006
Our own evolution with timesheet management went like this: 1. Painful paper timesheets, entered into Spreadsheet form When we decided that spending weekends data entering and not having a real time view of our projects just didn’t make sense any more, we evolved to: 2. Try third party software Desktop software, web based software, lots […]
| June 9th, 2005
With our “task tracker” (the proving grounds for Intervals) we learned a lot about tracking time. We learned that: If you make it difficult to track time…people won’t track time If you track time in “general” ways…you don’t learn too much about what is really going on We’ve learned that tracking time on tasks gives […]
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