Timeline for How detailed should my time management be?
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| May 29, 2011 at 14:35 | vote | accept | Ivo Flipse | ||
| Feb 23, 2011 at 0:52 | comment | added | SBWorks | On further though, there might actually be a difference in the question, I mean the answers for "as a freelancer or external consultant" would be different then for "as part of an enterprise PMO" | |
| Feb 22, 2011 at 20:21 | comment | added | richard | Addendum . . . what I said is for "time and materials" projects, not lump sum. If you have an agreed upon price for the project, then by all means, just track to whatever time interval will help you bid better next time. Otherwise, what you are selling to the client is "time", so you better track it closely. | |
| Feb 22, 2011 at 20:19 | comment | added | richard | To back up SMWorks, it's CRITICAL that you are able to back up what you are billing to your client. It goes a long way toward trust, etc. I have been tracking to the 1/4 hour (15 minutes) for 3 years now, and my clients are so used to it, I doubt they even look at the details anymore. They know the answers are there as to what I did and billed for, and so they can look whenever they need to. Generalizing, when you have your PM hat on, the time should not be tracked so granularly, but when you are billing, esp. as a freelancer . . . very detailed is the way to go. | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 0:47 | comment | added | SBWorks | For a PM in a big company - much less important. But this was specifically about a freelancer... | |
| Feb 19, 2011 at 6:59 | comment | added | jmort253 | +1 for billing questions. Very important! If you don't track time for any other purpose, do track it for this one! | |
| Feb 18, 2011 at 8:47 | history | answered | SBWorks | CC BY-SA 2.5 |