Tags Use Cases

Measure work type distribution in (software development) team

• Tags: Development, Testing, Code review, Support

• Helpful if you are: PO/PM, Scrum Master

• Goal: Measure how many hours are logged to each SW dev work type for a feature or bugfix, and find where the most or least time is spent to identify problems or areas for improvement. See how much time takes to perform a specific type of work across projects or teams.

• Another benefit: Track time only with tags, without the need of work description

Track overtime

• Tags: Overtime

• Helpful if you are: Users, Developer, PM/PO, etc.

• Goal: Users can mark the work performed above the expected number of hours and track how much overtime has been logged.

Track different ad-hoc or more general but regularly occurring activity types.

• Tags: Meeting, Research, Traveling, Lunch, Administration, Training, etc.

• Helpful if you are: PO/PM, Scrum Master

• Goal: Measure how many hours are logged to different ad-hoc or more general but regularly occurring activities, and we can separate it from others, for example, development work in the reports. Get an overview of how much time is spent on things that are not necessarily work-related or billable.

Measure how many hours logged for each customer

• Tags: Customer1, Cusotmer2, etc..

• Helpful if you are: PO/PM

• Goal: Measure how many hours are logged for each customer and create reports of how much time they should be billed for.

Keep track of how much billable work has been logged to individual invoices.

• Tags: InvoiceNumber1, InvoiceNumber2, etc..

• Helpful if you are: PO/PM, CFO

• Goal: Measure how many hours are logged to each invoice and create reports of how much time should be billed.

Mark time entries with non-standard billing rates or currencies so you know how to invoice them.

• Tags: USD, HUF, etc..

• Helpful if you are: PO/PM, CFO

Mark time entries you’ve invoiced with an invoiced tag so you don’t bill a client twice

• Tags: Invoiced

• Helpful if you are: PO/PM, CFO

Mark time entries that are billable or non-billable

• Tags: Billable, non-billable

• Helpful if you are: PO/PM, CFO

Measure efforts on different product components / product lines

• Tags: integrations, backend, admin

• Helpful if you are: PO/PM

Mesure efforts spent on different objectives (OKR)

• Tags: objective 1, objective 2, “grow product stickiness” etc.

• Helpful if you are: PO/PM