Introducing Teamtracker to Medium: discover our way of managing time
Everyone who works has to do with time; completing deadlines on time, spending time on that weekly sales meeting or sneaking in an extra five minutes of break time (yeah, we all do this from time to time). Being a busy (office) bee, you might be switching from one task to another. We used to wonder, how can you optimally keep track of the hours spent on all those different projects and tasks without losing productivity?
At Teamtracker we believe time is valuable. Not just because time is money though. Let’s take you back to why we started doing what we do. Being a digital agency’s start-up, we focus on taking away a little bit of frustration. All the employees of our mothership use a CRM called Teamleader. Besides our project managers and sales team who intensely use most of the Teamleader features, most the team uses the tool for simply two things: checking their planning and managing their timesheets. The second mentioned feature is where it all began: tracking time.
Eternal battle: project management vs. the team
Keeping track of the time spent on all the projects, tasks and meetings within the organisation used to be a bit of a struggle. Team members switch between a lot of different projects and tasks throughout the day. Only a handful of the team neatly logged their hours after completing a single task. Most of the them track their time by the end of the day, every day or two or only even by the end of the week.
This caused a bit of a stir; project managers didn’t have accurate insights on how many of the budget had been spent on a project and didn’t know what the team had been working on. On the other hand, the employees struggled with Teamleader’s timesheets; it costs quite a while to fill in a sheet for a task or project. Or even completely forgot to manage them. So, everyone chose staying productive over spending minutes and minutes on managing their timesheets.
Introducing Teamtracker
Being a development native organisation, the digital agency came up with a Teamleader integration. The idea came to mind on a Friday afternoon. Thanks to a couple of team members, the idea quickly turned into a concrete digital solution.
We created a tool to make sure the team could easily track time and to give project managers the constantly needed insights on the team’s workflow. And of course, to get rid of the team’s frustration by making time registration a fun and easy interaction. How, you might wonder? By creating a desktop app with a timer to start and stop time tracking while working on projects.
To tell you a bit more; the time registration integrated with Teamleader’s CRM and of course, its time sheets. Thanks to the desktop app, employees track time spent on projects on the spot by using the integrated start and stop functions. Now employees can easily switch between projects, calculate breaks and create insights in your team’s workflow. Instead of spending minutes on timesheets, the logged hours are automatically synced with Teamleader’s timesheets.
The result? Happy project managers, up to date insights and productive employees. Are you a user of Teamleader (or thinking about becoming one) and want to know more about our integration? Visit www.teamtracker.eu to find out how easy it works!
