What is a Timesheet?

A Timesheet is a document used to record the number of hours worked by an employee during a specific period. It serves as a tool for tracking and managing employee attendance, work hours, and tasks completed. Typically, employees track time against specific codes, projects or activities.

Submitting your Timesheet

Users require Time Tracking Access permissions in order to view their Timesheet. Admins can manage these permissions from ‘Manage Users’ in the navigation bar.

1. Navigate to the Time Tracking module on the left hand navigation bar and click on My Timesheet. Your Timesheet will always open on the current week.
2. The drop down bar on the left allows you to change the time period you’re submitting time against. These time periods are set by your admin. You can also navigate through the different periods using the left and right arrows on the page. If a date is greyed out it is either a day which is not available for time entry or does not fall within the current bookable time period.

1. Select the activity which you’re tracking time against. You can always track time for multiple activities by adding each new new activity as a new line item before submitting your Timesheet.

1. Select the respective cell for the date and activity and input the dedicated time spent on that task. Your admin may have set a limit on the maximum hours you can track against each day. If you exceed this maximum whilst this setting is turned on you’ll notice the value in the Totals row turns yellow and you’ll be blocked from submitting your timesheet.

If Timesheet Approvals have been enabled by your organisation your time will be colour coded according to the following criteria:

• Submitted time, not approved: grey
• Approved time: blue
• Revoked time: red

Note, that you are only able to submit grey values. If your timesheet has been revoked, you must re-enter all values to turn them grey before re-submitting.

Editing your Timesheet

To edit a previous entry, simply click into the cell you want to edit, enter the new time and submit your timesheet again. This is only available for time periods which have not been locked.

To delete an entry, simply edit the time entry in the cell to 0. If there are no previous time entries against that activity you’ll be able to delete the entire row once you’ve submitted the 0 values.

Editing Another User’s Timesheet

This feature is only available to Admins.

To access the Timesheets section, go to the left-hand menu and click on Time Tracking and then Timesheets. Here, you will see a list of all the users' timesheets. You can search within this list and select the user whose timesheet you want to edit. When you open their timesheet, it will look similar to your own, but with a banner indicating that you are editing another user's timesheet. You can then make the necessary edits and click "submit" to save the changes.

Time Tracking in APM & LPM

Time tracking is an important part of agile portfolio management (APM) and lean portfolio management (LPM). Without time tracking, it is not possible to accurately measure capital expenditure and budget consumption against lean business cases.

Time tracking is also an important part of measuring agile maturity. It enables organizations to retrospectively assess the accuracy of forecasts. For more information on the relationship between time tracking, lean portfolio management and agile portfolio management, have a look at the resources below.

Lean Project Accounting Whitepaper

Financial Tracking in Kiplot