{"id":52,"date":"2008-07-25T11:47:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T16:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/?p=52"},"modified":"2008-07-25T11:47:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T16:47:36","slug":"time-tracking-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/2008\/07\/time-tracking-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Tracking Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The development team where I work is going to start tracking the time spent working on each project. Although in some ways this feels like a bureaucratic hassle, it will be useful as far as justifying our existence and provide some ammo for why we shouldn&#8217;t tackle every suggestion that crosses our desks (e.g. the &#8220;trivial tweak&#8221; that actually take 12 hours to implement).<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/chessclock_200x125.jpg' alt='Clock' \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI did find a couple of items when I created Project Management tab in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/ig\">iGoogle<\/a> and selected &#8220;I&#8217;m feeling lucky. Automatically add stuff based on the tab name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.googlemodules.com\/module\/3442\/\">TimeGadget Project Tracker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.screeperzone.com\/2007\/08\/09\/activity-tracker-version-01-released\/\">Activity Tracker<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The former offers an Excel report, the latter a graph.<\/p>\n<p>Since a number of developers will be using it, it would be nice if we had something we could all use and then run reports from one place. Any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development team where I work is going to start tracking the time spent working on each project. Although in some ways this feels like a bureaucratic hassle, it will be useful as far as justifying our existence and provide some ammo for why we shouldn&#8217;t tackle every suggestion that crosses our desks (e.g. the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/2008\/07\/time-tracking-software\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time Tracking Software<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30,31],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process","tag-project-management","tag-time-tracking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}