Time Tracking Archives

5 Ways Time Tracking Will Improve Team Productivity

Thursday the 23rd of February 2023 — Written by Dovico

Are you a project manager looking to improve your team’s productivity? One of the easiest and most effective methods is time tracking. Time tracking is an often overlooked yet vital aspect of project management. It helps to measure the time spent on various tasks and activities accurately. It’s a key tool for monitoring progress, identifying bottlenecks, and ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget. Many people don’t realize that time tracking is also…

Time Keeping Methodology: Which Method Is Right for You?

Friday the 23rd of October 2020 — Written by Dovico

If you’re in the business of selling time, time tracking software is a no-brainer tool to have. When it’s time to bill your clients for your efforts, collecting and calculating that time shouldn’t be an added pain. It’s essential to have a time management process in place and then match that to your timesheet software. If you’re looking for a place to start, here are some standard time-tracking methods. How do companies track employee time…

Tagged: Efficiency / Productivity / Time Tracking / Time-Keeping Methodology / Ways to track time

4 Reasons Why You Need a Timesheet During a Crisis

Wednesday the 22nd of April 2020 — Written by Dovico

As a business community, if we’ve learned anything from the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, it’s that most of us weren’t prepared. What we do during the calm days prepares us for how we fare during the stormy days. If you’re a company that values time as a sellable commodity, then it’s time we talk about the REAL value of timesheets. Especially during stormy times like these. Selling time can be a very meticulous task. How thoroughly…

Tagged: Client Billing / Cloud-Based / Covid / Crisis / Productivity / Project Budgeting / Time Tracking / Timekeeping

5 Easy Steps to Tracking FFCRA Eligible Paid Leave

Friday the 10th of April 2020 — Written by Dovico

Challenging times call for extraordinary measures. With millions of American employees facing unplanned leave stemming from the Coronavirus pandemic, the US Government amended its current leave provisions. The goal of these changes is to help companies, which remain open, help their employees get through this without losing their income. Meticulously tracking your employees paid leave time is crucial to taking full advantage of the tax credits that you will need moving forward. On April 1st,…

Tagged: Awareness / Covid / Dovico Starter / FFCRA / IRS / Paid Leave / Reporting / Tax Credits / Time Tracking

Government Contributions: How a Timesheet Can Help Grow Your Company

Friday the 28th of June 2019 — Written by Dovico

By Diane Doucet – Dovico Co-Founder and Time Coach Edited by: Jeff Nagle Over the past 25 years, Dovico has been the recipient of many federal and provincial government contributions. This funding has been crucial to our growth and stability over the years. For each submission, I was the portfolio manager responsible for the entire application process. I would also manage the communication and documentation for all approved contributions. Based on my experiences, and the…

Tagged: Canadian Government Funding / Expense tracking / process improvement / Time Tracking

Take the guesswork out of timesheet entry

Tuesday the 14th of August 2018 — Written by Dovico

A programmer’s secret to improving his productivity Working on multiple projects, multiple times per day was a daily occurrence for Trent. He is a software developer in a small consulting firm of about 30 people. Being an essential member of such a small team, Trent spends most of his time working on many billable projects at the same time. Accurately recording his time between so many different tasks became a problem. If he waited until the…

Tagged: billable time / Onboarding / Tasks / Time Management / Time Tracking / Timer / timesheet

7 keys for optimum project and timesheet control

Thursday the 5th of April 2018 — Written by Dovico

Keep your business profitable with these key takeaways Your company has deadlines to meet and the project at hand is not much different than the one before it, yet you are questioning why this project has so much time against it. You have the same amount of employees working on this project as the last one, but this project has consumed double the time. Why are you over the projected allotment of billable time and…

Tagged: Budgeting / business / Dovico / employees / key / Project / Projects / takeaways / Time Management / Time Tracking

How much time do employees spend doing real work?

Wednesday the 21st of March 2018 — Written by Dovico

Understanding where employee time is spent and realigning that time to “fit” the project at hand is a major step toward greater profitability. “Time” is the keyword, it relates to money and software that saves and tracks time, increases efficiency and cuts project costs. Whether a company is small or an enterprise-wide corporation, they all have the same challenge of not wasting an employee’s time and making sure they are working on the projects that…

Tagged: b2b / Dovico / Performance / Productivity / profitability / Time Management / time saver / Time Tracking / timesheet / v14

Employee Timesheet Software vs. Free Excel Timesheets

Tuesday the 27th of February 2018 — Written by Dovico

Are spreadsheets still used for timesheets? In 2009, we published a press release saying that financial benefits can be gained from subscribing to an out-of-the-box solution for timesheet entry instead of using Excel spreadsheets. Would you believe it when I say that it still holds true today? Funny thing is though, now we’ve created a really nice Excel timesheet template that we’re giving away free. But, the existing problems are still present. In fact, in recent case studies where…

Tagged: Dovico Timesheet / excel / software / spreadsheet / Time Tracking / timesheet

Keep Track of Project Hours With Time Management Software

Monday the 12th of February 2018 — Written by Dovico

B2B Time Management Software For Billable Projects Running a business means knowing when projects need to be kept alive and knowing when to stop a project so that teams can focus on what matters. Apps and lists are not going to help until one understands fully the benefits to better manage time with an online time management solution. Some of the benefits of time-tracking software are; Know where your projects stand at all times Employees can…

Tagged: Dovico Timesheet / hosted / online / Project / Projects / Time / Time Management / Time Tracking