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Time logging, Time tracking and Time Management

1) What you have done, how have you spent your time? How do you organize or spend your personal time, does not matter, it is up to you.   But the time you spend during your work, when you are in Project, in the context of a company, it is important. There is someone else payment for every minute of your allocation. That is the reason the time logging may appear some bureaucratic activity: registering your to-dos, just for some formalism. But it is not, it assists the whole management chain. 2) Importance of time planning The time log helps the whole group, and specially the management board to know how the time is expended. It may help in understanding how your cost center is being utilized. There is the reason time planning is so important, it indicates in which tasks your hours are going to be booked. Booking an hour, means, in the end of a period, especially in the end of the month, your working hours are going to be part of an invoice, and it will be sent to some cust...
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Project Quality Management and its relationship with project scope

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Project Quality Management (PQM) with dotProject Cloud

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