10 Fatal Mistakes That Killed Our Time Tracking Implementation

Perhaps I'm missing something but this post doesn't seem to answer any of the questions it poses. As such it feels like blog spam.

I'm pretty dubious of the value of superfluous time tracking (in certain industries and situations it is obviously a requirement but outside of that it can be both wasteful and can undermine autonomy). I was expecting this might address this with some insight in the real values of detailed time tracking.

Am I missing something here? You outline 10 problems with not one single detail about the solutions? What exactly is the point of that?

I worked in a desktop support environment where we "charged" for our onsite time and then were forced to track all the rest of our time at work too. I use quote marks around charged because it was all internal dollars with in the larger organization.

After about 3 months of it all the staff basically revolted and demanded that the requirement of entering everything into the tracking system be halted. All the analysis had shown was that we were all spending nearly 1/4 of our day tracking what we were doing in the other 3/4's of the day.

As someone who built a time tracking application once (for desktop), Tracking time is a tricky line to walk. If you force employees to do it, they will resent you for it, and unless they see a clear value they will just invent numbers anyway.

Unless you are pitching to someone obsessed with tracking their own metrics, or someone who is billable and has trouble keeping track of what to charge clients, you will probably hit a wall.

Pressing spacebar or pagedown causes text that I might not have read yet to be hidden behind the header. Please, if you use static headers, adjust the scrollbar accordingly so that one page equals one page of visible content.