Have you ever dealt with time reports? Filled them in? Approved them? Shuffled them around?
Did it feel like well spent time?
Can you imagine a world without time reports?
Here’s the story about how we got rid of time reports at the company described in Scrum and XP from the Trenches.
I wrote the article because I keep bumping into organizations that would benefit from doing the same 
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Great story. I’ve filled timesheets for the last 6 years of my life through 3 different job, and now for the first time I work somewhere where someone had the guts to do what you did and say we we’re going to stop doing them.
I don’t miss them at all. In fact I hadn’t thought about them once until I read this article
Strangely the rest of our organisation still does them…
Do you have any suggestions about how to eliminate cost account in an organization where the finance team uses cost accounting to capitalize people’s time on projects? For example, some specialist individuals may contribute to 5 different projects in one week.
I note some comments about this in the FAQ in the paper, however, do you have some real-life examples of a finance/accounting team actually agreeing to this? What benefits were put forward to make the case?
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