| I'm a developer, and in my company: We have a bi weekly team meeting to discuss tasks/issues assignment. Almost all day. We make sure everyone has 2 weeks of work assigned, estimation on tasks is as best we can do. Then everyday we have a tool to log time against each tasks we spent time on. We have to log 7h. From a 8h30 day minus 1h lunch, 15m break morning, 15m break afternoon. We have to log/distribute 7h every day between assigned tasks, or special tasks like: network/software/hardware problems; meetings (without active task); task planning and time spent logging time; releases deployment;... It's a pain in the ass, but help us thinking/focusing on what needs to be done. Team managers, project managers, and BAs also log their time. Every other day my team manager verify if everyone is missing logging their time and send private email reminder(just a pic of weekly calendar with missing logs). If I start to fall back to much he starts calling every day asking what I'm I working on. Quarterly, in my personal evaluation, time logged is used as one of the metrics to evaluate progress. But not taken to serious, as it is a hard one. Edit1: Everyday we have to make sure the task remaning time to completion is updated, increase/decrease/maintain. |