Why time tracking is important
February 26th, 2008

Recently i’ve stumbled a interesting article that i’d like to share with you. It’s called “Good reasons to do time tracking” from a blog called Better Projects. Here’s an excerpt (whole article here):

Staffing - Several people avoided layoffs because I could show exactly what they were working on and how long they spent doing it. We also could show that we needed more people in order to do additional projects in the time frame management required it. Project delivery dates – Because we had good historical data on actual times vs. estimates, our estimates were given more credibility by management. Instead of management insisting on an unreasonable delivery date, they accepted ours. Planning when new projects could be started – When management saw that staff was fully loaded for the next few months, they reprioritized their projects to fit the staffing schedule.

I could not agree more with the author, and i believe that a streamlined time tracking solution gives a project manager the edge. If you have real data you can plan and quote accordingly without risking your business and credibility. If you’re a freelancer i believe it’s extremely important to do correct tracking of your time, because you are a person who owns his own job and is his own boss, thus all the decisions you make are reflected directly in your income.

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Paymo – What's next?
February 7th, 2008

We’ve received a lot of feedback, and many of you have asked for new features. We’ve compiled a list of the most popular user requests and added our own ideas. Here’s what we will be working on in the following months:

• Invoicing Module - This will be a commercial upgrade, that will allow you to create branded invoices based on your time reports
• API – We’ll be releasing an API that will allow anyone with programming skills to use the data stored in their Paymo accounts
• Project & Task Priorities – This is a very popular request, that will enable setting priorities to projects and tasks, and display them accordingly in the widget
• Windows App Idle Detection – We’ll be adding a idle feature to the windows app, that will stop the timer if there’s no activity on the computer.
• Usability Upgrades

If you feel you can contribute, please send us comments via the blog.

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The fight goes on!
February 4th, 2008

We’re working daily on getting rid of the pesky bugs, so we’d like to thank you for your continued support and great feedback.
All your messages are read and analysed by our development guys, and we’re doing our best to minimize downtime that might be caused by bugs.

This week we’ll post a couple of new features here on the blog, that we’ll be adding in the future. They are either things we wanted to do from start, but didn’t have the time to implement or suggestions from our growing user base. Stay tuned, and feel free to post comments.

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