Time and Review

Team members record work date, hours, project and optionally a story on a time entry. A submitted entry with positive hours is approved by the workflow, which records a review decision and operation receipt. Review decisions also keep the subject, reviewer, decision and date for delivery review. Attachments can hold supporting files for a delivery record.

• Starting record. Team members record work date, hours, project and optionally a story on a time entry.
• Named owner. Team Member submits work; Time Reviewer checks approval; Delivery Lead reads the project totals.
• Current position. The status and linked records tell the team where attention belongs next.

Agree which time is billable and who checks submitted entries. Require a work date and positive hours before submission. Decide how rejected entries are corrected and who can read the related review decision. Keep the entry linked to the correct project and story so reported hours remain useful to the delivery lead.

The Team Member checks the work date, project and hours before submission because the approval workflow runs at that change. The Time Reviewer inspects the resulting decision and receipt. A failed attempt leaves the entry for correction; the team should use its recorded reason before submitting again.

A team member logs several hours against a story and submits the entry. The approval workflow checks that the hours are positive and the entry remains submitted, then marks it approved and records the decision and receipt. If the entry has zero hours, it records a failed receipt instead. The Time Reviewer can inspect the approval decision and receipt, while the Delivery Lead compares logged hours with project estimates.

The Time Reviewer opens the submitted entry to verify its project, team member and work date, then reads the decision and receipt created by the workflow. A failed attempt with zero hours is corrected on the source entry before another submission. The Delivery Lead reads project hours only after those links are accurate.

• Timesheets Awaiting Approval — Submitted entries ready for an approval check.
• My Time Entries — The team member’s dated work and approval states.

See sprint planning for the planning handoff and review and approval for the decision record. Begin with a small project in implementation, then compare the team’s results with the data model.