New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are your thoughts on tracking time at work?
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on tracking time at work?
2 by graypegg | 7 comments on Hacker News.
I’ve just started a new job and during the on-boarding I learning that management expects a 15min accuracy on logged time in JIRA tickets. This includes meetings so tracking 15min for stand up every morning in a big shared story is something everyone here does. I feel like I would be able to adapt to it if the interval was 1 day or similar. Having every quarter-hour be accountable to my manager seems somehow untrusting. I’ve mentioned it to a direct manager, and the reasoning is that 15min/day over the course of a year is a large cost, and tracking ops time vs product time is something they find valuable… and that makes sense to me, but I can’t seem to shake whatever red flags this is flying in my head. Most places I’ve worked at have tracked points, which still relate to time in a way, but are large enough to account for bad estimates, by design. I feel like I’m going to flounder here in the transition to 15min increments. Where’s the sweet spot in your opinion? Is there a way to do time tracking and/or estimates that doesn’t feel « untrusting »?
2 by graypegg | 7 comments on Hacker News.
I’ve just started a new job and during the on-boarding I learning that management expects a 15min accuracy on logged time in JIRA tickets. This includes meetings so tracking 15min for stand up every morning in a big shared story is something everyone here does. I feel like I would be able to adapt to it if the interval was 1 day or similar. Having every quarter-hour be accountable to my manager seems somehow untrusting. I’ve mentioned it to a direct manager, and the reasoning is that 15min/day over the course of a year is a large cost, and tracking ops time vs product time is something they find valuable… and that makes sense to me, but I can’t seem to shake whatever red flags this is flying in my head. Most places I’ve worked at have tracked points, which still relate to time in a way, but are large enough to account for bad estimates, by design. I feel like I’m going to flounder here in the transition to 15min increments. Where’s the sweet spot in your opinion? Is there a way to do time tracking and/or estimates that doesn’t feel « untrusting »?
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