Does any one know good quality (free or opensource )Time Tracking
Tools. I am looking for a tool that can be used to track time at task
level. Web enablement and role-based would be good to have. Please let
me know if you know of a good tool.

Thanks in Advance.

mohan_bavirisetty wrote:

> Does any one know good quality (free or opensource )Time Tracking
> Tools. I am looking for a tool that can be used to track time at task
> level. Web enablement and role-based would be good to have. Please let
> me know if you know of a good tool.

Please never be my boss.

-- 
  Phlip
  http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand

<mohan_bavirisetty@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Does any one know good quality (free or opensource )Time Tracking
> Tools. I am looking for a tool that can be used to track time at task
> level. Web enablement and role-based would be good to have. Please let
> me know if you know of a good tool.

Is it just me or did anyone else read the subject line
and immediately think someone was looking for the
equivalent of a "little black book"? -Wm

In our lab at Milwaukee School of Engineering, we used a homegrown
web-based tool.  Here's link to the group currently working on the
tool, maybe they can tell you more.

https://opal.msoe.edu/sdl/staff/planning/

For our senior design team, we used a series of excel spreadsheets to
do individual PSP-level tracking.  The spreadsheets were linked
together and we had a master sheet that would track team totals.  It
worked pretty well but wasn't very upgradable.  Are you tracking data
at all now?  How large is your group?

mohan_bavirisetty@yahoo.com wrote:
> Does any one know good quality (free or opensource )Time Tracking
> Tools. I am looking for a tool that can be used to track time at task
> level. Web enablement and role-based would be good to have. Please let
> me know if you know of a good tool.
> 
> Thanks in Advance.
> 

Take a look at Eventum
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/other/eventum/

"Phlip" <phlip_cpp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> mohan_bavirisetty wrote:
>
> > Does any one know good quality (free or opensource )Time Tracking
> > Tools. I am looking for a tool that can be used to track time at task
> > level. Web enablement and role-based would be good to have. Please let
> > me know if you know of a good tool.
>
> Please never be my boss.
>

OK, Phlip, I'll bite. What's wrong with time tracking?

Hi Mohan,

Please feel free to check out our web based Release Planning System
at www.yoxel.com. While it is in 'beta' it is free. It works off of
either Yoxel
BTS (which is free) or an external BTS (like Bugzilla or GNATS). It
allows to
enter effort estimates and is role-based.

We have have an open demo account for anyone to log-in and see what
our services are about. You can find the login credentials in the
'News' column
on our web site.


Good luck,
Alexey

mohan_bavirisetty@yahoo.com wrote:
> Does any one know good quality (free or opensource )Time Tracking
> Tools. I am looking for a tool that can be used to track time at task
> level. Web enablement and role-based would be good to have. Please
let
> me know if you know of a good tool.
>
> Thanks in Advance.

Our tool, PODS, allows effort to be tracked to changes, defects,
actions, reviews etc., as an option, to permit a sort of real time CoQ
assessment, but not to track individual's effort.

It runs on Lotus Notes, manual and eval copy from our website
www.osel.co.uk.

On Sun, 8 May 2005 13:24:36 -0400, "Scott Kinney" <sakinney@ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

>
>"Phlip" <phlip_cpp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:2LObe.1118$6z3.1073@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com...
>> mohan_bavirisetty wrote:
>>
>> > Does any one know good quality (free or opensource )Time Tracking
>> > Tools. I am looking for a tool that can be used to track time at task
>> > level. Web enablement and role-based would be good to have. Please let
>> > me know if you know of a good tool.
>>
>> Please never be my boss.
>>
>
>OK, Phlip, I'll bite. What's wrong with time tracking?
>

2 problems I know of...

1. People waste a lot of time tracking their time.

2. Studues have shown that the information you get from detailed time tracking
is always misleading, and pretty much everyone is inventing numbers to put
down.

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:19:38 -0500, "William" <Reply@NewsGroup.Please> wrote:

><mohan_bavirisetty@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:1114614597.227704.113530@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> Does any one know good quality (free or opensource )Time Tracking
>> Tools. I am looking for a tool that can be used to track time at task
>> level. Web enablement and role-based would be good to have. Please let
>> me know if you know of a good tool.
>
>Is it just me or did anyone else read the subject line
>and immediately think someone was looking for the
>equivalent of a "little black book"? -Wm
>

No - not just you <g>

"Steve Jorgensen" <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 8 May 2005 13:24:36 -0400, "Scott Kinney" <sakinney@ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Phlip" <phlip_cpp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >news:2LObe.1118$6z3.1073@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com...
> >> mohan_bavirisetty wrote:
> >>
> >> > Does any one know good quality (free or opensource )Time Tracking
> >> > Tools. I am looking for a tool that can be used to track time at task
> >> > level. Web enablement and role-based would be good to have. Please
let
> >> > me know if you know of a good tool.
> >>
> >> Please never be my boss.
> >>
> >
> >OK, Phlip, I'll bite. What's wrong with time tracking?
> >
>
> 2 problems I know of...
>
> 1. People waste a lot of time tracking their time.
>
> 2. Studues have shown that the information you get from detailed time
tracking
> is always misleading, and pretty much everyone is inventing numbers to put
> down.

Hmmm. Since I get paid by the hour, and bill my time across a few clients,
maybe
I have a higher tolerance for tracking my time than most. Still, it takes me
about 5 or 6 minutes total
on any given day.
So, what constitutes "a lot"?

As to point #2, well, I'm not sure what point #2 means. But then, my hours
get audited every so often,
and I actually get money for them, my boss can budget my projects, in short,
everything you need to be
able to do with time tracking, you can do....

I think another problem is if done accurately, it shows how
unproductive most employees are.  Therefore most people won't be
truthful about it.  If they fudge the numbers they look better.

I've tracked time with much success on a small team in an academic
setting.  I think in the business world it needs to be done
differently.  Not sure how yet.

Has anyone had success with individual time tracking?

"D Knight" <daveknight12@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Has anyone had success with individual time tracking?

Absolutely.  If you want to improve your software process, you need data.
The old adage, you can' t improve what you don't measure, is absolutely
true.  If you are unwilling to track time, then you can't be very serious
about being an effective development organization.

...

"Scott Kinney" <sakinney@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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>

> Hmmm. Since I get paid by the hour, and bill my time across a few
> clients, maybe I have a higher tolerance for tracking my time than
> most. Still, it takes me about 5 or 6 minutes total on any given day.
> So, what constitutes "a lot"?

I don't get paid by the hour, exactly, but the accountants decided
that good practices would require all time to be tracked by project
and task.

Since I contribute to most projects in my group, the first time I
did it, accurately, I ended up with about 24-30 line items and it
took 90 minutes to sort it out for a week. That's when my boss said
to just hit the high points :-)  -Wm

>> Hmmm. Since I get paid by the hour, and bill my time across a few
>> clients, maybe I have a higher tolerance for tracking my time than
>> most. Still, it takes me about 5 or 6 minutes total on any given day.
>> So, what constitutes "a lot"?

But what if you work at a company and you write a CGI that performs
a service for everyone in the company?  To which project is the
time charged?  This can get really complicated because the general
answer is that you want to charge it in proportion to the budgets
of all the projects, but you're not allowed to do it automagically
because then the project leaders start arguing about the fractional
charges.

Suppose you write a tool that is used by *all* the programmers at
the company, but is not written for any particular project.  How
does that time get billed.

Time tracking can be a lot harder inside a company than for
someone billing professional services.

     --bks

Scott Kinney wrote:

 > Phlip wrote:

> > mohan_bavirisetty wrote:
> >
> > > Does any one know good quality (free or opensource )Time Tracking
> > > Tools. I am looking for a tool that can be used to track time at task
> > > level. Web enablement and role-based would be good to have. Please let
> > > me know if you know of a good tool.
> >
> > Please never be my boss.

> OK, Phlip, I'll bite. What's wrong with time tracking?

Scott, you wasted 3 minutes writing that post, when you could have been
productive! Now get back to work!!

(BTW Time Tracking is Mostly Harmless when you have external customers to
log hours to on projects...)

-- 
  Phlip
  http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand

"Phlip" <phlip_cpp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> (BTW Time Tracking is Mostly Harmless when you have external customers to
> log hours to on projects...)

Actually, not tracking it can be very harmful, at least
in the U.S. The IRS treats certain tasks differently,
either as expenses which can be deducted, or as capital
investments which must be amortized. The hours that fall
into each category (and probably others) must be tracked.
(And the crackdown on corporate accounting practices has
encouraged even more detailed tracking than I suspect is
strictly necessary, but, then, I'm not a CPA.) -Wm