It’s easy to see why some software teams dislike time tracking.
Instead of using it as a tool for developer self-improvement, some managers and businesses can get overzealous, using time tracking to micromanage employees.
And, ironically, doing time tracking wrong can cost team leads the time they’re trying to save through overbuilt processes and tooling.
If employee time tracking has become a pain point for your team, here’s the prescription: 7pace + monday.com.
This guide will walk you through why 7pace Timetracker is pivotal for enhancing team productivity and reducing time wastage to speed up project cycle times. And, how to integrate 7pace with monday.com in ten minutes or less, so you can better collect and analyze team time reports to make more accurate estimations and better allocate resources to improve project delivery efficiency metrics.
monday.com is what’s known as a “work operating system” (work OS) — a platform made up of various apps that can be combined to help teams carry out their every task, project, and workflow.
As such, monday.com’s primary function is to centralize all things work in one place.
It does this by providing a visual interface where teams can collaborate to plan, track, and manage work. It’s become known for being a user-friendly and customizable platform that teams of all sizes across various industries can use to streamline processes and increase productivity.
That’s why we use it here at 7pace, and are proud to be part of their robust integration library.
With 7pace’s time tracking app, team-wide time documentation and reporting become seamless.
Fully-integrated time tracking functionality helps predicate project success across business units.
First, a built-in time tracking app is critical for product and project managers because it quantifies how much time is being spent on each task or phase of a project, by each team member. This information is key to understanding unique skill sets across your team and allocating resources accordingly.
And when team leads have access to time tracking data, they can use that knowledge for predictable project planning. More accurate planning makes for better scheduling, more timelines met, fewer budget overages, and fewer overworked team members.
For decision-makers who manage tooling and capitalization, accurate time tracking software is most impactful in cost management. True time data assists in creating software development budgets that are both specific and realistic.
In addition, keeping a running tab on time is the best way to identify where scope creep is silently siphoning off your budget.
Just look at time spent on planned tasks versus unexpected/new tasks to stop budget busters in their tracks — or apply that helpful information next time you’re scoping out a task or an entire project.
Last (but certainly not least), for developers and anyone else executing on tasks, the ability to track hours practically in real-time makes it easier to focus on the work at hand (and more likely that all their billable time will make it into your records).
Beyond that, being able to see their own hours gives the people who produce the work a peek into their patterns, so they can identify areas of inefficiency and track their progress toward becoming a better programmer. Plus, having hard data on how long it takes them to complete specific tasks makes developers great at creating effort estimations — furthering your goal as team leader to create project plans that are less stressful for everyone.
Adding 7pace’s powerful, purpose-built time tracking solution into your monday.com instance brings together the best parts of both platforms to make time tracking more seamless, accurate, and useful than ever.
Here are just some of the ways the 7pace + monday.com integration will benefit your whole team.
When you use 7pace inside monday.com, you get more than a simple list of tracked hours.
You can turn all your reported work hours into a monday.com board, so you can slice, dice, and analyze your data for better software cost estimations.
By assigning attributes to entries, you can create rich timesheets full of the context that makes for next-level project management. Attach hourly rates to each person on the project to see how everyone is contributing. Set up a dashboard to watch the project progress against the budgeted hours.
With monday.com’s features and 7pace’s smart time tracking features, you have all the insight you need into how long jobs take and why, so you can predict durations more precisely the next time around.
Integrating monday.com and 7pace simplifies the time tracking process and empowers managers to plan more effectively.
For workers, the time tracking widget is attached right to the task ticket. No need for extra software or additional steps that might tempt you to put off time tracking until the end of the day (or week).
For managers, you can access all team-wide time and individual time and use this data to create detailed reports from inside monday.com. And with just a click, you can export this data to a spreadsheet to conduct deeper analysis.
And because we want every size and type of company to be able to take advantage of our powerful integration, there are currently no restrictions on how many users you can have inside monday.com using 7pace to track and manage time.
Everyone on every project can add their time, on their own time. And you can add as many projects, clients, and other items you need to track, without limit.
Ready to do this?
Visit the 7pace time tracker + monday.com integration page and use the “Get started” button to be directed to the “7pace Timetracker for monday.com” page on monday.com’s app marketplace.
If you don’t have a monday.com account, you should see a “Get Started” button, which will direct you to monday.com where you can create an account (no credit card required) and set up your first board.
If you already have an account, you should see a “Sign in to install” button.
Once you select that, a popup will appear. You can use the “Add to your account” button to install 7pace Timetracker on monday.com.
After choosing to install the time tracker on all or just specific workspaces and clicking “Install,” you’ll arrive at a “Welcome to the app!” page.
Here you can choose to add the 7pace app to a workspace you already have set up. Or, you can start with a template then set up your workspace from there. Let’s choose that option.
Now we get to choose the template. We’ll go with “Full template” to take advantage of all the features.
After choosing which workspace to add the app to and using the “Add app” button, you should find yourself inside monday.com, in your chosen workspace, looking at an introduction and guide on how to use 7pace Timetracker. You’re now inside your new “7pace Timetracker – Full template.”
When you click on tasks in this template, you should see “7pace Timetracker” as an option, which you can open to add time.
As you click through this template, you’ll notice that some areas still require you to give 7pace access. Just use the “Grant access” button to authorize the 7pace integration visibility into your monday.com data, which it needs to track time accurately.
Next, you’ll want to enable 7pace integration recipes. Click “Integrate” near the top of your board then “Board integrations” at the top of the screen that pops up.
You may need to scroll to see them, but you’ll find the 7pace Timetracker integrations turned off.
Click “Edit fields here,” select “Hours spent” from the drop-down menu, and “Update integration.” Go back to “Integrate” near the top of your board and do this for each turned-off 7pace Timetracker integration, then toggle them “On.”
You should now see an “Hours spent” time tracking column associated with tasks on boards in this template.
With that, the basic 7pace Timetracker integration is ready to use.
But, there’s even more you can do with 7pace inside monday.com, like creating a board full of aggregate time data that you can analyze and visualize in multiple ways by applying dashboard widgets, connecting other boards, and so on.
Learn more about this “Copy to board” feature, how to apply the rate matching automation, how to set up a project progress-tracking dashboard, and more in the “How To” document in your template. Or, watch our ten-minute video that will walk you through all the details on setting up the workspace template.
Just like your team is at its most powerful together, time tracking with monday.com is stronger than ever with the addition of the new 7pace integration.
Get started with 7pace + monday.com today and boost team collaboration and time management.
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