Timesheet Best Practices For Organizations

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  Increase Resource Capacity

  As project managers we often think of resource capacity as finite. We reduce it by reducing staff. We increase it by increasing staff. Yet, Project Management as a culture has become so ingrained in our corporate world that it often becomes a silo of its own. Does Project Management know what is happening beyond its own borders? Does it know what time is being spent on non-project tasks and what those tasks are? For organizations who are willing to integrate both project and non-project timesheet collection, the potential benefits are vast. This white paper describes actual HMS client examples where organizations were able to increase their project resource capacity through the implementation of timesheet best practices.

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  Have a Timesheet Process

  It's commonly forgotten but compliance is tough to come by if you have not published your timesheet process. When we're asked to write such guides, our staff think of timesheet processes first from the Administrator, Supervisor and Individual perspectives and then we assemble proceses by incident (such as hiriing a new employee or starting a new project) or by period (such what must happen each week or each payroll period). If you're interested in a template to start your own processes off, download the TimeControl Process Template.

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  Executive Perspective

  This Whitepaper describes some of the return on investment benefits that become possible when an organization deploys a centralized multi-purpose timesheet like TimeControl. There are numerous possible avenues of benefit along with quotes from HMS clients. The paper focuses on TimeControl-specific benefits, but some of these returns on investment are possible regardless of which timesheet is selected

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  Managing Change Management in a timesheet deployment

  When people deploy an enterprise system like TimeControl for timesheet management, they are embarking on a change management project. Deploying TimeControl certainly has a technical aspect to it. There is configuration to do, integration with other systems to activate and reports to create but these are not complex with TimeControl. What clients often overlook is the impact of an enterprise timesheet system on internal practices, procedures, and processes. TimeControl can have change how an organization behaves and this means managing a TimeControl deployment as a Change Management project. Our President, Chris Vandersluis, has shared some of his thoughts on the subject in this white paper on Managing Change in a timesheet deployment.

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  Decentralized Project Management and Centralized Timesheets

  When people talk about Enterprise Project Management software, they tend to think about a large centralized system either on premise or online which houses all project data. For many reasons, not every organization is able or willing to deploy such a centralized system. There are millions of licenses of stand alone project management systems in organizations and these stand alone systems continue to serve project managers well. But what does that mean for the centralized requirement for timesheets? This white paper looks at this business challenge and points out the benefits of using decentralized project systems and a centralized TimeControl timesheet all linked together. This is impossible with other timesheet systems as TimeControl has by far the most integrations with project systems in the industry.

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  Choosing the Right Timesheet Length

  When deploying TimeControl, organizations are able to choose how long a timesheet should be. Previous versions were restricted to a weekly schedule or daily if using TimeControl Industrial. Now there are a number of options when configuring the length of the timesheet. Should it be weekly, bi-weekly, bi-monthly, monthly or some other length? The answer may not be obvious. TimeControl unique ability to serve different aspects of the organization simultaneously with the same timesheet means that these organizations will need to bring these diverse departments together to decide on how long the timesheet should be. This white paper outlines some of the key factors that should be considered when making this decisions.

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