[c3]

At entp we used a custom-built time tracker that works a bit like twitter; you tell it what you're working on (projects are referenced with @projectname and individual tickets with #1234) and it tracks the time between status updates to that project. It shows what everyone's latest status is, so it's good for a team to get visibility into everyone.

It's open source! https://github.com/entp/xtt

We used it extensively when we were mainly a widely distributed consulting company (4 countries, 4 US states, 20 devs) and continued using it after we dropped the clients. It's useful to see the hard costs of building certain features and even entire apps; there's also a ton of useful data about how many hours people are pulling a week, what time we show up for work, as well as the basic "what are you working on?"

However, the dev team is pretty small right now so we have ditched the time tracking. We are moving to a new tool that we're building which focuses more on how you feel about what you're working on.

[rudasn]

Courtney, can I contact you about your new tool ("how you feel about what you're working on")? I think there are some ideas we could share. My email is my username at gmail.