Effective time management is essential to the successful completion of any project. Discover in this article the importance of time tracking in project management, the benefits it offers to teams and organizations, and how to implement it easily with Tuleap Software. 


time tracking in Tuleap

Tuleap facilitates project planning and tracking for all software teams. Agile ninjas, newbies, or waterfall-oriented people can work together under one roof as Tuleap offers various project management tools, for any agile or hybrid methods you wish to adopt.

Importance and unavoidable time tracking

When it comes to project management, one factor reigns supreme: time. As the saying goes, “time is money”, and managing it effectively can mean the difference between success and failure. Across all business sectors, teams recognize the paramount importance of time tracking as an indispensable practice.

Time remains a key factor in project management. Many teams, such as help desks or service departments, need to track time. Whether it’s identifying time-consuming tasks, streamlining billing based on time spent on specific issues, or ensuring compliance with service level agreements (SLAs) and maximizing profitability, time tracking is proving to be an unavoidable aspect with many benefits.

Time tracking, an essential aspect of project management, is the key to unlocking many benefits that can have a significant impact on project results and team efficiency. Whether it’s gaining a better understanding of time-consuming tasks, optimizing resource allocation, ensuring compliance with service level agreements (SLAs) or improving billing practices, time tracking plays an essential role.

This is possible now in Tuleap Software. With the Time Tracking module, users can record the time they spend working on issues. Tuleap’s time tracking module provides project teams with state-of-the-art functionality and seamless integration.

Many use cases of Tuleap Time tracking

KEEP TRACK OF PROJECTS WITHOUT TOO MUCH ADMINISTRATIVE OVERHEAD

Project Managers understand the value of time tracking as it allows them to gain deeper insights into individual tasks’ time consumption. By utilizing Tuleap’s integrated Time Tracking feature, there is no need for cumbersome app-switching or maintaining separate spreadsheets. This seamless integration streamlines the process, enabling managers to effortlessly keep track of all aspects of their projects without burdening team members with additional administrative tasks.

Moreover, Tuleap’s advanced permission system ensures data privacy. Managers can confidently track time on items shared with clients, such as issue reports, while safeguarding internal data within the working team and management. This not only maintains data confidentiality but also prevents clients from accessing sensitive internal information.

IMPROVE ESTIMATIONS BY LEARNING FROM THE PAST

For agile teams seeking continuous improvement, recording actual time spent on activities is vital to fact-check agile metrics. By comparing estimated hours to actual time spent, teams can identify areas of improvement and refine their estimation processes. The upcoming velocity management feature in Tuleap Software further enhances this capability, enabling teams to make data-driven decisions and optimize their predictability.

THE BASIS FOR BILLING

Time tracking plays a pivotal role in billing processes, especially in consulting and service-based industries where clients are often billed on an hourly basis. Tuleap’s time entries feature simplifies client billing, making it more efficient and accurate.
Service Desk leads can easily access data on hours worked for each project, task, and client, streamlining the invoicing process and ensuring thorough billing practices.

TRACK SLAS

For IT and Service departments striving to deliver exemplary service, effective measurement of response times is crucial. Tuleap’s time tracking capability comes to the rescue by enabling teams to monitor SLA compliance efficiently. By pairing time tracking with a Kanban approach, teams can achieve flow-oriented task management, ensuring that the “time spent on task” KPI aligns with service guarantees.

MEASURE KPI

By activating Tuleap’s time tracking feature alongside project trackers, executives and managers gain valuable insights into work progress. They can easily view the total hours invested by each team member across different products or projects. Armed with this data, businesses can measure profitability based on time allocation, identifying areas of success and areas that require improvement. This data-driven approach empowers businesses to make informed decisions to boost overall performance.

In conclusion, time tracking with Tuleap proves to be an indispensable tool for project management, providing numerous use cases that benefit teams and businesses alike. From enhancing project tracking efficiency and improving estimations to facilitating accurate billing and measuring KPIs, Tuleap’s time tracking feature delivers valuable insights that drive business success. Embracing this powerful tool can empower teams to work smarter, make data-driven decisions, and achieve the best possible outcomes in today’s competitive business landscape.

Tuleap Time Tracking big features

Time tracking applies on top of Tuleap trackers. People report their time in each artifact and they get a consolidated view in their personal page thanks to a widget.

  • Check your spent time all over the projects you’re member of with the Time Tracking widget on your personal dashboard. It works cross tracker and cross project.
  • Configure time tracking for individual tracker
  • Check total time spent on individual issue
  • Track which steps on an issue requires more time than others
  • Create, edit, delete work log entries
  • Tracker admin can specify which user groups can add, edit and see time logs

How to get Tuleap Time Tracking plugin

This plugin is available under Tuleap Enterprise Edition or myTuleap subscriptions

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