Hour View

January 29th, 2009

We recently updated hour view. New design include:

• cell height is proportional to time, so it’s more intuitive to read,
• showing all breaks (idle time cell height is also proportional),
• background colors shows actually how productive application or site is (green colors means productive, red colors unproductive).

How to supervise difficult employees

January 10th, 2009

Pretty good article on how to supervise difficult employees.

What you measure, you improve

October 18th, 2008

Jim Estill says “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it since I am a continuous improvment person.”

But why measure?

• If you cannot measure it, you cannot control it.
• If you cannot control it, you cannot manage it.

But measurement is not an end in itself. The goal is to achieve an objective.

Our typical user spends an average of 4.5 hours a day at the computer. This will result in 19% of the total daily time. It’s quite a bit, huh? In TimeCamp everything is automatically recorded – with no data entry. Stop wondering “where did my day go?”. Reviewing your log can help you identify tasks you could delegate, defer or drop, tasks that you could spend less time on or time killers such as being interrupted by checking email.

Futher reading

You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure By F. John Reh
How do you measure personal productivity? By Matthew Cornell
You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure
Business Metrics in Action By Michael Alter