This isn't a new problem. I used to have to enter my time in 3 places. Once for the client's corporate system, once for the project-based system, and once for

This isn't a new problem. I used to have to enter my time in 3 places. Once for the client's corporate system, once for the project-based system, and once for my company's system. As much as we like innovation, this is part of the case for standardization. :-) The mental model I follow is: 1 - Figure out if you can fight it. If it's a fight you can win, push to standardize. If it's one you can't, don't waste your time. 2 - If you don't fight it, figure out which have data that is really being used, and which people are just going through the motions. For the data that's being used, keep it current and think through the input. For data that's not, don't kill yourself. 3 - Always have your own #s so that you can answer what's really going on.