Category: Timesheets

Of course there are a lot of timesheets on the market.  But most are either borderline shareware, or those ‘million-dollar’ implementations that vex you and your budget for years.  Finding a good timesheet in the middle is hard.

So what is the best and easiest timesheet on the market?

Click the video to find out!

This video will show you how to change terminologies in Standard Time®. They can be changed throughout the entire system or in a specific place. It can be customized however you choose.

For instance, let’s say you use the word “Program” or “Plan” instead of “Project.”  Or, the word “Assembly” instead of “Category.”  Use the techniques in this video to change them in the system.

If you are billing clients for projects, you definitely want a system that gracefully handles multiple billing rates.

Ultimately, you want to potentially have different rates for each project, and for each user or role on the project.

Let’s say Josh is the project manager on the Alcoa job.  And Alice is the engineer.  Rates for Josh and Alice will not likely be the same.  Now let’s take another example.  Ted is the now the project manager on the Union Pacific job, and Josh is taking a lower engineering role.  Again, the rates for Josh and Ted are not likely going to be the same.  They have different roles, so their billing rates should be different.

The video below is describing this exact scenario.

Customize what is seen in your timesheet. Not only can you choose your favorite projects, you can also choose the columns you see, and the totals at the top and bottom.

This video describes choosing timesheet columns.  Various project fields can help when filling out your timesheet.

A certain PMO office which we talked to defined project management ‘supply and demand’ this way.  (The video below describes it in detail.  Scroll down.)

1. Demand: Product line managers ask employees to work a certain percentage of their daily schedule on a series of projects.

2. Supply: The actual employees supply their hours to the projects they want to work on.

Hopefully, the demand and the supply end up the same.  But sometimes not.  Sometimes, employees don’t feel the priorities are correct, or tactics on the ground don’t work out exactly as the managers planned.  In any case, there may be a gap between the demand and the actual hours supplied by employees.  It is that gap that should be understood.

Are managers asking for too much?  Or setting unrealistic priorities that can never be executed by employees?  Or misunderstanding the ground-pounders?

Or… are employees just overriding the strategery set forth by upper management?  Do they ‘get’ the vision at all?  Or are they just unable to execute the plan?

Usually, the supply and demand do match.  People try to get along.  And strategies like this usually work out just as planned.  But if they don’t, perhaps a meeting of the minds is justified.  But at least you know when gaps exist.  It’s a tool to help align management and staff.

Hope it helps!  🙂

Connect the Standard Time timesheet to SQL Server.

These links may also help:

http://www.stdtime.com/videos/sqlserver.htm

http://www.stdtime.com/videos/setupwebtimesheet.htm

Memorizing reports make is simpler to run the same report again and again.

Have you ever run the same report over and over, and have to remember what choices you made each time?  Consider “memorizing” the report.

Memorizing is just saving the choices you made when running a report.  Those choices define the projects, clients, date ranges, and employees that we selected when the report was first run.  If you memorize the report, you won’t have to make those choices again.  You just click once on the memorized report, and it will open.

Have you ever seen a time tracking app that runs on both Windows and Web?  Here’s one.

In other words, there are two platforms that let you access your timesheet and projects.  One platform is the familiar Windows client.  It’s a native Windows app that runs on Windows 10.

The other is a Web-based time tracking app that runs in a browser.  Got Chrome?  Or Microsoft Edge?  This time tracking app can be accessed with either one.  Or one of the many other browsers, like Safari, Firefox, or Opera.

Need to manage projects?  Tasks?  Subprojects and portfolios?  This one does it.  Admittedly, most of those project management features are in the Windows Edition only.  But you’ll still see project hierarchies and portfolios in the Web app.  The combination of both Windows and Web make this a compelling time tracking and project management offering.

Check it out here: www.stdtime.com

 

 

 

 

 

Learn how to set up employee email notifications for your timesheet.  Need to know when project tasks are coming up?  This will tell you.