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See my comment. Figured this was this case. It's obvious - but it's empirically proven that this structure, tournament structure, rads it cheating and sabotage.
Peak - keep track of what everyone is working on
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#12This is awful bordering on offensive. Not only does it assume that "productivity" is an easy to quantify set of ticks on a scale, but it completely ignores any other work besides that which can be tied into the service.
What a horrid idea.
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#13Is this some kind of April Fools joke but very, very late?
What a horrible product. As a team leader, I've always sought to do the opposite this product promotes: care not about what each person is doing but rather the total of each individual's contributions and what the team as a whole was producing.
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#14This is a cute application that ties many services together and even looks nice. Standing alone, it's almost like having a timeline for the tangible things in your work; I'd actually love to have this summarized, but for no particular reason.
And that's the problem. It's not clear at all what problem this fun application solves. It clearly doesn't capture the flow of work in a team or any individual, simply because it only captures the tangible/digital artifacts of work. You can imagine adding self-reporting or something (ala Yammer), but it's still an incomplete record.
And as other commenters point out, an incomplete dataset is prone to faulty reasoning. An overzealous user might micromanage based only on these tangible artifacts...
In any case, I'd encourage the developers here to think about what specific problem is being solved, and whether this app communicates that well. The information captured might be useful, but I'm unconvinced a timeline presents it properly.
My gut says something about summaries and aggregation, looking not at what's in-flight but what has been done so far.
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#15A lot of people are saying this would encourage micromanaging, but I think it has a more valid purpose:
1.) A great way for a CEO of a growing company to check in and see the pulse of their company. Someone who has a head on their shoulders would probably just say "great, things are moving along." An idiot who's primary job is to get in the way would probably do what people are talking about here.
2.) A deterrent for what they say on their site (and was even poked fun at in a comic on the front page earlier today): shoulder tapping. This looks like a great way to pacify the idiot mentioned above in #1 who's sole purpose is to make sure the cog (you) is spinning.
In the right hands this looks like an incredible tool and a great way to keep an eye on your business. In the wrong hands, well, yeah. If you work for a company where someone would use this to incessantly nag you and your fellow team members, it's probably time to pack up instead of saying the tool is bad.
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#16The information you could gain from this tool could be used for good or bad purposes. Personally I think it would give me an insight into what my team is working on, rather than being a negative 'big brother' tool. If you use this to track if your employees are working or not you already have the wrong attitude.
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#17I want my company to use this just so I can write scripts to game the metrics.
For bonus points, can it integrate with WooBoard (http://www.wooboard.com/) so we can do ridiculous tracking and ridiculous recognition in the same place?
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#18I want my company to use this just so I can write scripts to game the metrics. For bonus points, can it integrate with WooBoard ( http://www.wooboard.com/ ) so we can do ridiculous tracking and ridiculous recognition in the same place?
I get why this tracking system is ridiculous, but I think that this wooboard thing can work in some context. Dont you think so?
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#19So if I spend an hour at my desk with a pen on paper while I sketch out a few pages of notes, designing a new system before I implement it, I'm unproductive? No thanks.
Agreed. Same would go for any stand-ups you held with your team, and whiteboard design sessions, and more. It's like you're out the lunch if you're not emailing or updating things on project trackers.
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#20I thought this might be like iDoneThis, but nope, it's full on spying. That can fuck right off. iDoneThis on the other hand is great, highly recommend (no, I have nothing to do with the company, just used it on my last startup).