[tedyoung]

> tracking work efforts

Why are you doing this? How does it help improve delivery of value to those who are paying for the product/service?

Agile was intended to have people discover better ways to deliver something of value.

This is why the Agile Manifesto starts with People (vs. some unchangeable process handed down from above) and Working (Valuable) Software, instead of a book full of "requirements". And so on.

If you haven't read the Agile Principles, you're unlikely to be Agile: https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

The goal is: provide value, get external feedback on how it could be more valuable, as well as internal feedback on how people can deliver that value better.

That's it.

Everything else needs to either support that, or is just someone trying to micromanage you (and don't think that's not done on purpose).