[jshen]

As a "grand-boss", you may want to consider that having visibility into how an organization of a few hundred developers is spending their time is just like being a systems engineer and wanting (needing) to have monitoring of how your system load / resources are being utilized.

More often than not, I use time tracking to manage Sr Executives, and business partners, not developers. It may be invisible to most developers, but your executive probably has to fight for the budget that is funding your work on a regular basis. Having a pie chart that shows where time is spent is a great tool to convince your business partners that they can't cut everything but new feature development. It's sad how often I have to have this conversation.

Don't get me wrong, there are bad bosses, but there are many good uses of information like time tracking that may be invisible to the average developer.