Take your time under control
Any working process can't go without permanent time control. If you forget about the time, you can easily procrastinate with the tasks and exceed their due date. Constantly overdue results of your work may cause that your leader and team mates will consider you are non-punctual and irresponsible person. In order to avoid such impression and deserve the respect of your colleagues and direction, get into a habit to control how mush time is left before task due date and how much time you still need to accomplish it.
"Tracking due date and time left" To Do List
- While working on the task, don't forget about the time
- Periodically estimate what part of the task is already done, how much time you will still need to accomplish it and how much time is left before task deadline
- Use software to track task due date and time left
Action plan
- Start your task management software
- Set filter to display only uncompleted tasks
- Display 'Time Left' and 'Due Date' columns
- Compare the time in both columns
- Take appropriate measures if you discover the procrastination with some task
See also:
Analyze completed tasks to foresee the mistakes of similar tasks in future
CentriQS Tracking Tasks Solution Task Time Tracking in CentriQS is very flexible. Users can track time they spend on tasks both manually by entering actual/remaining task duration or adding time logs and automatically by using task timer that adds time logs when you pause or stop it. Task property "Deviation" informs users whether they are "On Schedule", "Ahead of Schedule" or "Behind Schedule" by calculating the difference between "Estimate" and "Actual+Remain". |
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