You can use Mylyn (the Eclipse plugin) to keep track of the amount of time you spend working on each issue/task. Mylyn has connectors for JIRA, Bugzilla and other issue tracking tools. You can also use Mylyn to do time tracking outside of your issue tracking software by creating local tasks. You still have to activate & deactivate the issue in order to track time, but this is not too hard a habit to form. Activating the issue, helps you focus on those classes that need to be modified, and keeps track of the classes that you changed. After you commit your changes, simply deactivate the issue, and start working on the next issue. It has a nice little progress bar in the Mylyn window to show you the amount of progress you're making on your tasks.
If you use JIRA for bugtracking and time tracking, it will also do comparisons between estimated vs actual time. This is useful when you do a project post mortem. You'll be able to see how task complexity plays into time estimation. Of course this is only a partial solution, since it won't help you track the time you spend on administrative tasks, but you can always subtract the time that's logged in Mylyn and estimate that what's left over is administrative time. HTH, Mark On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Obviously I'm a little bit behind in my Posse listening, as I only > listened to #276 yesterday. :-) However, I found this a really > interesting discussion, particularly because I am in a small team and > my role encompasses both development and user support. > > One big issue I have is actually trying to track what I do each day, > so I can get a picture of what is going on with my time. I've tried > numerous time trackers, but I generally tend to forget to switch them > when I change tasks. The best two I have found is TimeCult (http:// > timecult.sourceforge.net/) and TaskCoach (http://www.taskcoach.org/). > But it's the same issue with each - they require me to remember to > stop and start a timer. > > Does anyone know of any decent apps that will automatically log how > much time you spend in different apps? Eg. if I could get a picture > of the amount of time I have eclipse open versus the amount of time I > have Outlook open, I'd get a reasonable picture of how much time I am > spending answering emails from customers or my team, and how much I am > actually in my IDE. This would be very useful when it comes to sprint > planning and trying to estimate how much time I have to allocate to > actual development each sprint. > > Andrew. > > > -- Mark Fortner blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jroller/ideafactory --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
