R&D Engineering Percent Time Allocation Timesheets and The Failed Experiment of “The Data Hat”
The Data Hat and Time Tracking - By Thomas Jefferson Timetrackington
As a visiting scholar at Pacific Timesheet, I recently completed a research study: “Whacky Technology Ideas That Cannot Even Be Called Silly.” Though it was not my intention, it has become a tribute to how great Steve Jobs really was, by surveying the thousands of bad ideas and new product road kill created by other lesser brains during the Age of Steve (1979 – 2011). The study included a way to watch TV with an inhaler (don’t ask), a new kind of ethanol you could manufacture from old bed sheets, and force-field furniture for people who move a lot and have no friends. However, my favorite example of a failed technology product was “The Data Hat.”
The Declaration of Time Tracking Independence
The Declaration of Time Tracking Independence, by Thomas Jefferson Timetrackington, Jr.
Back in 1776, with no junk mail, law firms, investment bankers, or computer viruses, life was simpler, probably better.
Automating Crew Timesheets
Pre-populating Key Employee Timesheet Data
Automating Crew Timesheets and Data Validation
Field Service Timesheet Software to Automate Time Capture In The Field And Office
In a previous post, we discussed that replacing paper crew timeheets through automation needs to be easier, more efficient and accurate than writing it in on a paper crew timesheet.
Crew Timesheet Software Easier, Faster and More Accurate
Crew timesheets are traditionally paper-based, and are a convenient way to track the work being done by a crew at remote locations such as construction or job sites. In general, the data is entered at the end of the day and often must be rekeyed into a back-end system at a later date. This obviously can introduce a new set of errors due to double entry, as well reducing real-time visibility into the work being done in the field.
Due to these and other limitations, replacing paper crew timesheets is essential. However, replacing paper crew time sheets through automation is easier said than done. It probably goes without saying, but we'll say it anyway. Entering jobs, phases, cost codes, pay classes, billing codes and other key information in a crew timesheet absolutely needs to be easier, more efficient and accurate than writing it in on a paper crew timesheet. Any software-based crew timesheet system must make data entry in the field easier than the paper system it is replacing...