However what´s probably telling me to look for a specific time tracking solution to integrate with Airtable is the fact that in order to keep a global track of hours, assign incoming tasks, and plan the near future workload for the team, I strongly believe nothing beats a visual interface (weekly calendar / timeline) to interactively organize, modify, and discuss it with other people. I am not there yet :slightly_smiling_face:Īirtable has been already filling some other gaps though. I would love to have a better system but as we speak I rely on a couple of teammates to make a trustworthy but rough data gathering rather than on a proper system that could make it easier for everybody to contribute seaminglessly to time tracking each task / project. poor traceability … and many similar tasks, for similar projects, for similar clients make for a very good way to end up with lots of misplaced hours. Currently tasks are delivered manually (orally) i.e. As much as I would love to automate real time tracking, I would need to have a better task/ticket system working to be 100% accurate when allotting hours to projects. ![]() I am currently relying on a project manager and an account executive to assign and control tasks, and to (roughly) track time manually every day. Hi Thomas, thanks a lot for your thoughts, what you wrote is pretty accurate. Give me a little time and I’ll come up with something that shows what I would do.Įdit: Do you require that this solution have hours specified that were idle, or do you only need total idle hours for the day/week/whatever? Like, do you need a visual timeline or do you only need this thing to push out numbers? If you only need numbers, then it can easily be done by airtable alone. ![]() The only question is “How do I get numbers that are based on reality instead of numbers that are based on planning.” You can establish a metric that show how much time has been allotted to each project out of the time you have, but from a management perspective for planning, if you tracked the actual time that was spent on a given project by each team member, you’d be able to plan more effectively. And if that alone works for you, that’s fine, and the rest of this paragraph is purely my personal input. Sound right? That’s pretty simple to do with Airtable, especially if you use Zapier or otherwise additional products to integrate with Airtable, but the issue for me comes down to looking at the report vs the reality. ![]() You need specific start times and durations associated to projects.Ģ- A summary view that says how many hours of scheduled time were actually used, perhaps also developed into further information like “what percentage of time does X team member spend on each project?”ģ (possibly) - Some kind of aggregate view that shows how the team as a whole is performing. So from what I understand then, what you are trying to accomplish is a weekly report that contains 2, maybe 3 major things-ġ- A breakdown that says what hours were worked, and on what project/task, per team member.
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