Re: FN-FORUM: Timesheet software

date posted 3rd September 2007 16:02

On Monday 03 September 2007 11:35:23 Martin Wheatley wrote:

> At the moment I just guess number of hours but I'm sure the clients are
> getting more for their money than they should.

But are they?

It's surprising how little of the working day is actually spent working.
Estimates of the time the average employed desk-jockey spends really
working range from about 4 or 5 hours a day all the way down to
1.5.

On the other hand, when I started programming professionally in C and
C++ I found I was good for about six hours of concentration. After
that my brain was shot and I started creating more problems than I
was solving.

For time sheets now I simply scribble the time down in my notebook
(or sometimes in a text editor) when I start on something and when
I stop - for whatever reason. So yes, this means I've sometimes got
"13:31->13:33" written down because the phone rang two minutes
after I sat down.