TimeCamp » Supervision http://www.timecamp.com/blog Empowers your team to help them understand how they spend their time. Improve time management skills, increase productivity and realize the value of time. Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:15:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Hour View http://www.timecamp.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/29/hour-view/ http://www.timecamp.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/29/hour-view/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:50:51 +0000 TimeCamp Team http://www.timecamp.com/blog/?p=49 clipboard02We 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).
This update is useful especially for better employees monitoring.
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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

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