How do you coordinate time management within your team?
Hi there :)
I’d be interested to hear about your experience with time tracking. How was this feature implemented in your workspace? Did you need to make any adjustments?
In my experience, the biggest challenge was getting the team to actually use the timer. I wasn’t able to successfully implement that change, so for now, the team splits the workday based on the tasks completed.
One tool that proved very helpful was the time entry reminder — it really helped us avoid forgetfulness.
I really like the enhancements Wrike has been making to the timesheet. Being able to prepopulate based on status, due dates, and other Fields makes mass entry easy. I have a lot of standard work in Wrike along with project tasks so being able to quickly record an hour and 1/2 hour to specific items like meetings or desk time is helpful for us. I typically record my time in 5 minutes increments instead of using the timer - i round to 5 minutes anyways to account for the time it takes to switch between tasks.
I second the time entry reminder.
However I have to disagree on the Timer.
As we work fairly agile (quickly jump from project to project) this tends to not work as well for us...
We still are strugling to figure out how automatically (without the API) forbid Timeentries in past (everything past the prior quarter)...
We are leveraging Effort and Bookings, later we will tackle Actual...broke teams down to job role to make it all make sense....slow roll and avoiding timesheets completely.