Punch Card

[Bhavesh]

Hello guys,

I would like to see a menu option for punching in and out of a task.
Actually it's something I'm working on right now. But I think you guys can do it much better.

Thank you,

Bhavesh.

[Thomas Mercer-Hursh]

Are you looking for timekeeping?  Authorization?

[Bhavesh]

Hello, Thomas,

We currently have an MS Access based application to track how much time was spent by who on what task.

Now that we're going to use EA everywhere, we want to use it to do the above job too. E. g. if I'm working on coding a class that is on diagram, I would like to select that class and punch-in. Then when I'm done I'll punch-out.

I should be able to do this with all kinds of elements, not just classes.

Thank you,

Bhavesh.

[Thomas Mercer-Hursh]

Sounds like a horrid level of micromanagement to me.  I can't imagine getting any meaningful data from it.  Among other things, it encourages people to make assignments that aren't meaningful.

Reminds me a bit of many years ago when I was doing some computer system acquisition consulting for a job shop manufacturer.  They were explaining the issues they had because the system for tracking what job a person was working on during the day was separate from the system for tracking who had worked on the job, i.e., timecard versus job traveler.  One can't lie on a job traveler because the card is following the job so there needs to be a handoff from X to Y to Z as different people work on it.  But, with their system at the time, there was no automatic tie to the person's timecard.  During the discussion they pulled a random card for a person they thought was a problem and then pulled the travelers for the jobs he said he was working on.  The travelers had only about 50% of the time on the timecard!

If anything, I would think the place to control this would be the source code management system,  Check it out, work on it, and check it in.

[Bhavesh]

Hello, Thomas,

Thank you for reply.
I'll discuss with my friends and post again, if necessary.

Thank you,

Bhavesh.