Every month do you write a monthly report in a monthly Microsoft Word monthly file every month?



  • "Not detail enough. Please submit detailed breakdown before 5pm."
    (Sent on 4:55pm)



  • Five year goal: Build the biggest computer in the world. One-year goal: Achieve one-fifth of the above. One-month goal: Achieve one twelfth of the one-year goal. One-week goal: find a new management team to work with.


  • Garbage Person

    When we start working on a ticket in the bug tracking system, we need to create a corresponding task in the scrum tracking system so that we have something to talk about in the daily meeting.

    When we work on a feature in the scrum tracking system, we need to create a ticket in the bug tracking system so that we have something to cross-reference in the commit.


  • Garbage Person

    At a previous employer where I had to fill out time sheets the primary purpose was to support capitalization of costs. When they could document that someone spent a certain amount of time developing a specific capitalizable asset, they could depreciate the corresponding portion of that person's salary/benefits over some number of quarters, boosting reported profit in the short term.

    So they only really cared about time spent on capitalizable projects. If you worked on a project that was on the drop-down list, select that. Then put enough hours into the catch-all "admin" category to make the total be 40.

    A secondary purpose was to feed into Payroll's tracking of vacation time.



  • This is one thing my place gets right, for some definition of right.

    No time sheets, no reports daily/weekly/whatever. No monthly breakdowns. None of it.

    I turn up, I build what I get asked to build in fantasy timelines (this is probably where it falls down! Hence "some definition of right") and go about my day.



  • @Arantor said:

    This is one thing my place gets right, for some definition of right.

    No time sheets, no reports daily/weekly/whatever. No monthly breakdowns. None of it.

    I turn up, I build what I get asked to build in fantasy timelines (this is probably where it falls down! Hence "some definition of right") and go about my day.


    👋 Exactly the same here.



  • We have timesheets, but apparently mostly so that they know how much to budget for large projects...


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