One of the best things about developing Clever Tools is listening to user problems and finding ways to help solve them. There is a local company here in San Diego that does web hosting, domains, VOIP, and other things. I am friends with the owners as I used to work for the company. They have a programming department and this department is assigned to different projects at one time. They were having trouble tracking where programmers were spending time and having issues trying to assign them to do xx hours here and xx hours on this project each week. So, basically they wanted the programmers to work a set amount of hours on this project and a certain on this task. So, we created a solution for this and also for users who want to reach goals.

Clever Tool’s time tracking tool now supports goal tracking. Project managers can assign goals to a user and track how well they are reaching these goals. For example, the project manager can set two goals for a user: work at least 10 hours on task a and 4 on task b in a time period of a week. These goals now show up in their account and each time they record time against a task, the goal is updated to reflect the status. This goal is showed graphically depicting how many hours they have completed toward the goal and how much time is left in the period to complete those goals. Project Managers can run reports to see who is reaching their goals and what percentage of these goals are they reaching. Goals can also be assigned to groups. Users can also create their own goals to help themselves to track time and goals. User generated goals are not shown to project managers. You can also look at the history for that goal and see how have you done in the past.

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