[Configuring Time Types 31164] Overview
Time types are used to categorize tracked time. These Time Types can help technicians, project managers and team members amongst other TDNext users track their actual time for resource management purposes. An individual user would indicate what type of time they are tracking.
Common time types include vacation, holiday, project time, ticket time, administrative, travel, meeting, professional development.
[Getting Started with Time Tracking 3538] Overview
Tracking time supports reporting on the past, tracking the present, and estimating the future.
Time Tracking in TeamDynamix can:
- Enhance our ability to estimate for future activities since we can juxtapose estimates vs actuals on past activities in TeamDynamix.
- Demonstrate the human capital costs for work effort to help drive informed decision making.
- Ability to show where people are overworked/underworked
- Reduce the chance of scope creep because costs related to time can be monitored.
- Help distinguish between time spent running the organization vs growing the organization vs transforming the organization.
- Ensure deliverables are rendered more reliably as estimates get better with more historical data
Tracking your time can also be used to track time off such as PTO time which also feeds into resource management, helping resource pool manager check on their employee’s availability to work on tickets or projects.
Tracking time can help anyone with access to the Analysis app report on actual hours. This will further help resource pool managers understand availability and allow project managers to better be able to do resource forecasting.
Anyone with access to the Time & Expense app in TDNext can track time. Depending on project settings, time may be approved by the individual’s manager or by a project manager.