Time tracking

Time tracking records the effort spent on items so you can report on it, bill for it, and improve future estimates.

Two ways to log time

• Manual entry — add a time entry to an item with a duration and an optional note (for example, 2h — investigated root cause).
• Start/stop timer — start a live timer when you begin work and stop it when you finish; ActionConnect records the elapsed duration as an entry.

Every entry is attached to a specific item and the user who logged it.

What you can track

• Time per item and per subtask.
• Time per user, so you can see where individual effort is going.
• Time across a project or a sprint, for rolled-up totals.

Reporting

Logged time is reportable. Use it to:

• Compare estimated effort (story points or hours) against actual time.
• Surface where a team is spending its hours.
• Feed dashboard widgets and the Workload view for capacity planning.

See Dashboards and Views.

Tips

• Use the start/stop timer for focused work sessions to capture accurate durations; use manual entry to backfill time you forgot to track.
• Keep entry notes short but specific — they make reports far more useful.
• Review estimate-vs-actual at the end of each sprint to calibrate future planning.