Hi Jim,
From the questions you are asking, it sounds like there is quite a focus on hours worked at your organisation. Almost to the point that it seems a little unhealthy.
We try to steer folks away from the hours worked and more towards the value achieved. It would make more sense if you could look at the story point delivery rate or some other team related metric rather than personal hours logged. Obviously, if your company is having to cross charge, the onus is on to get the hours logged, but I would ask if the organisation should be looking at some other way of making sure things get done.
To answer your specific question, you could enable the RTT module (Rally time tracker) in your workspace and then you can log actuals. There are a few apps and a couple of custom apps that might help you if you are mandated to work in hours.
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Nik
Rally Sales Engineer
Rally Software
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-17-2020 01:39 PM
From: Jim Smith
Subject: Time Reporting - Actual vs. Estimate
Is there a way in Rally to produce report that will show me actual time charged vs. estimates? Sometimes I've worked at other places where these were called Time Exception Reports or Variance report.
I would like to quickly identify a comparison of total actuals vs. total estimates on a story or total actuals vs. estimates by person overall or even by story. In addition, I'd also like to see if I can identify who has not charged time for the week.
Next, could we automate this type of report?