5 Ways to Improve Time Tracking

Tushar is an experienced product management and marketing professional and the VP of Marketing for Innotas.

  Stakeholder Management   ProjectsAtWork  

There are myriad benefits to time tracking. The trick to realizing them is boosting adoption and compliance. By focusing on the potential benefits of time tracking from your teams’ perspectives, you can help get everyone on board and get over the internal hurdles quickly.

No other phrase is music to project managers’ ears — yet strikes fear into the hearts of employees — quite like “time tracking.”

There’s no doubt that using time sheets or time tracking provides a valuable high-level view of a team’s progress — not to mention a powerful “single truth” — enabling PMOs, project managers and executives to share a common and unbiased understanding of how resources are being used. In fact, it’s the single biggest (and simplest) thing organizations can do to accelerate business growth. Yet team members are often skeptical of the motives behind time tracking, or are resistant to the added task, making it a challenge to get them completely on board.

Here are a few tips you can use to boost adoption by getting into the mindset of team membersand explaining the benefits of time tracking from their point of view.

1. Put yourself in your team’s shoes

Especially if you’re introducing time-tracking to long-established teams who haven’t been asked to record the time they’re …

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