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Solving time tracking challenges with project-level approvals in Timesheets

From Team '23

Tempo Team

Time tracking should be a tool for clarity, not a source of frustration. However, many teams struggle with unclear accountability and wasting time trying to review entries that lack context.

Frustrating issues – but there is a solution.

Enter Tempo projects: The latest Timesheets feature that enables project-level time approvals to make these challenges a thing of the past.

What does it do?

Tempo projects allows you to take any of your issues, subtasks in a Jira filter, structures, projects, or epics and roll them up into a trackable scope. From there, it takes all your work included in that scope and bundles it up into “project time” that spans across teams and departments.

That enables you to view and approve work in a way that directly ties it to overall project goals. Additionally, you can set specific approvers for each of your projects so the person who should know gets to approve what happened on each project.

We developed this feature to hopefully put an end to ambiguity in ownership for approval responsibilities and provide leaders with the big picture context for all assessing how time is spent.

Benefits beyond approvals

  • Project managers: Gain control and visibility over time allocation to stay aligned with goals.

  • Finance teams: Improve forecasting and billing with accurate, project-level time data.

  • Team members: Get clear, actionable feedback on their contributions to project success.

Get started today

To start solving your time tracking challenges with project-level approvals:

  1. Grant your project manager, administrator and project viewer the right global permissions

  2. Enable project time approval in Tempo Settings for the organization.

  3. Enable approvals for individual Tempo projects.

  4. Set up Tempo projects with scope and default settings.

  5. Share your project with one or more collaborators.

  6. Review time submissions and approve or reject as you see fit.

  7. View our documentation should you have any other questions.

Don’t let fragmented approvals and missed insights hold your team back. Upgrade your time tracking game with projects and turn logged project hours into actionable insights.

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