Rally Time Tracker Overview

Rally Time Tracker extends Rally with timesheets and timesheet reports for the purpose of reporting on development cost, either for billing, charge backs or software capitalization purposes. It alleviates the "double entry" frustration developers experience when their organization requires them to fill out weekly or monthly timesheets. By capturing timesheet entries in Rally, Rally Time Tracker saves developers' time and collects more accurate project cost estimates by recording daily hours spent on development work. Rally Time Tracker also features a Sum of Time Spent option. This allows the tracking of total hours spent on stories or defects including time on tasks associated with stories and defects.

The optional Rally Time Tracker module manifests itself in several areas:

• My Home > Timesheet page where team members can enter the hours they spent on development work daily as well as update their tasks todos. This page provides one interface to enter hours (hours spent so far and hours remaining on tasks)
• Reports > Add New (Report Designer) shows a Timesheet report type for organizers to generate aggregate reports on time spent by their team. Using custom fields on stories and defects to record accounting codes allow sophisticated reporting by accounting codes.
• The Task Detail page shows a read-only Time Spent field that that shows the total of all hours reported in timesheets for the task. This field is used in the Report Designer to calculate the total number of hours spent on defects and stories.

Rally Time Tracker provides Web Services API access (TimeEntry and TimeEntryValue objects) to integrate time data tracked in Rally with other time and attendance systems.