We are road-testing Tempo to replace our previous time tracking system completely. There seems to be a couple of gaps
It seems to me that only solution to this is "meta issues" that are never closed. Is there a better solution? Did I miss a feature?
Update: I experimented with "Internal Activities". It looked promising at first, but it only allowed me to plan work, they don't seem to allow me to log time against that activity.
Hi Si
I suggest you use Internal issues in Tempo Timesheets for non-issue activity
Internal issues is intended for logging work against issues that are common to users like vacation and sickness hours.
Please also take a look at the Using Internal issues in Tempo example
Regarding presales activity you may want to evaluate if you can use Tempo Accounts.
The Account Manager gives a way to address different dimensions for done work, other than the JIRA issues themselves.
Hope this helps
Sverrir Tynes
Tempo support
I think the feature he is looking for is to log work on account/project directly.
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We are currently testing the Account Manager functionality, it's looking very positive so far. I will report back when we've made a decision.
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I should note. Having set up Account Manager, I still appear to be unable to log work on an account without an issue to assign the work to. (As Viðar pointed out.)
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Yes. Unfortunately you need to create a house cleaning issue in the project to associate with the account. But it is on our roadmap to be able to log work without an issue. Stay tuned!
-Viðar
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Our solution to this, in brief:
Once only:
Each new Account:
We can then log work against the presales project. For issues on normal projects there is only one Account and this will be selected by default. For issues on the Pre-sales project, the person has to manually select the Account that the issue is associated with when creating the Issue.
We can then report in two ways:
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Its a bit odd to me that none of the major agile PM tools offer project level time tracking. Given that most agilists i've met would agrue against tracking actual time spent (aka "effort") on stories/tasks due to the overhead, hassle, and uselessness of it in general, I guess everyone is relying on project/client-level time tracking to be handled by their accounting or payroll system.
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