ClearQuest TimeTracker

CM-Consult Company and

Rational Tools project www.rational-tools.info

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TimeTracker for ClearQuest IBM Rational ClearQuest TimeTracker allows you to improve the process of estimating time actually spent on tasks and increase effectiveness of working time planning, both personal and of the whole project. It also allows saving ClearQuest licenses used. ClearQuest TimeTracker allows you to launch tracking of time spent on tasks by the single mouse click. Since ClearQuest Time Tracker automatically gets the list of tasks and updates task statuses, the time an employee spends working with ClearQuest significantly reduces, that allows saving up to 40% of ClearQuest licenses. Such saving is achieved due to decrease of user session duration in ClearQuest.

Annotation ClearQuest TimeTracker will help you to increase accuracy of working hours tracking and automate collecting of information about task progress from your team members. It will make the work with the IBM Rational ClearQuest change management system more convenient, and will save ClearQuest licenses for employees.

One of the main problems in project management is to get precise information about tasks actually fulfilled by employees. This module allows easily solve this problem, since it calculates actual time spent on a task by a specialist, and exports this information into ClearQuest.

The module is a standalone application that works in background mode and is easy to use. It increases the productivity of employees’ work in ClearQuest by providing quick access to their tasks and automatically updating task statuses when tasks are fulfilled. The built-in time management tool allows an employee to determine the time he/she can spend on particular tasks during the working day.

Since ClearQuest Time Tracker automatically gets the list of tasks and updates task statuses, the time an employee spends working with ClearQuest significantly reduces, that allows saving up to 40% of ClearQuest licenses. Such saving is achieved due to decrease of user session duration in ClearQuest.

Maximum effectiveness can be achieved by using this module together with planning systems CQ ProjectTracker and GanttChart for ClearQuest.

The module does not have analogue on the market!

Benefits ClearQuest TimeTracker allows project managers and executives:




To get actual information about task fulfillment. To save time on collecting statistics from employees. To plan further tasks more accurately on basis of actual information about the team

performance.

ClearQuest TimeTracker allows project participants:

Not to waste time on daily analysis of their working time and calculation of time spent on task fulfillment – ClearQuest TimeTracker does it by itself.

To keep record of personal effective time. To quickly receive tasks, automatically track time and change task status upon task

completion without using ClearQuest.

Main Functions Getting personal statistics on tasks within several user databases and time periods. Getting full information about ClearQuest tasks. Defining personal settings for every PC user. Automatically changing task statuses upon start and finish of work. Automatically tracking time spent on a task. Protecting the system settings of change requests by administrator password. Working with any change request. Temporary stopping of time tracking with further continuation. Tracking of user idle time during task fulfillment. Switching between several user databases. Taking into account the beginning and end of the working day. Creating records defined in system settings right from the context menu. Opening ClearQuest record forms.

System Requirements ClearQuest 2003.06.00, 7.0, 7.1 or later. .Net Framework 2.0.




Screenshots

System menu and user form

Project plan in GanttChart for ClearQuest and task progress in ClearQuest Time Tracker




Selecting task

Task to be performed, active button on taskbar




Task to be performed, active button on taskbar

Personal settings




Personal settings

Solution type: Application. Prerequisites: Requires IBM Rational ClearQuest installed in the system. Delivery type: Windows distributive. Compatibility: Compatible with ClearQuest 7.0 and upper. Multilanguage support: Yes.

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About CM-Consult It was founded in 2004. The main business is consulting in project management area,

implementation and support IBM Rational tools and technologies as well as methodic (RUP). Distribution, setup and customization, support of IBM Rational software and Microsoft tools.

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Our team conducted over 25 successful projects of IBM Rational technologies implementation, we trained over 700 specialists.

«CM-Consult» is a business partner of IBM for all these years and has a status Premier IBM Partner as well as Value Advantage Plus (V.A.P.).

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About Rational Tools project The project starts at 2008 for international promoting the solutions and services of CM-

Consult which are worked through the real projects of the company. Rational-Tools is the set of the unique solutions and software which extends and complements the capabilities of IBM Rational tools and it has no analogues in the world. Some of these products are registered in IBM as Value Advantage Plus (V.A.P.) solutions (Project Tracker and UML2ClearQuest), that confirms their high quality and relevance for the broad spectrum of customers.

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ClearQuest TimeTracker