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That's essentially what I've been doing, and I've been posting it in our daily status slack channel. I need to do a better job of adding more details, but it's

That's essentially what I've been doing, and I've been posting it in our daily status slack channel. I need to do a better job of adding more details, but it's a balancing act between spending time on logging work vs doing work, plus if I'm the only person on the team doing it, it looks weird.

Fire-Dragon-DoL 6y ago
I have a public (within the company) github repo called "worklog" where everyone can put theirs (it's by name), one file per year. I usually have 4-5 lines per day, where some days have 15 (rare, but there are those big days). I don't give the report in slack, since github has track of when stuff was committed (I commit at the end of the day), if people need it, it's on github. It's great for standups, because I usually forget what I did yesterday. It's also great for some company tax reductions, so it's appreciated! Last but not least, I capture breakthrougs and decisions in there, as well as learning, so I can refer to it various months later and tell people exactly what I was doing a certain date. At some point people asked "why this wasn't already done, what were you doing in August last year"... And I was able to clearly explain what I was doing in August and why things were not prioritized. Overall, great win! Just to clarify, I didn't come up with this idea myself, it was suggested to me on the Eventide Slack https://eventide-project.org/#community-section https://eventide-project.org/#community-section Apparently it's a common practice in engineering (should be in software engineering too!), I currently follow this log structure: https://github.com/eventide-project/project-status/blob/master/work-log/README.md https://github.com/eventide-project/project-status/blob/mast...
- johntash 6y ago
  > It's also great for some company tax reductions, so it's appreciated! Can you explain what you mean by company tax reductions? I'm confused how that relates with keeping a worklog.
  - Fire-Dragon-DoL 6y ago
    Specific to Canada, there is a tax reduction thing for the company of this size (the one I work at), that has some specific requirements related to experimenting and tracking time spent on various activities. It can be summarized per day though, this means that I just have to turn in my work-log for this purpose, with no additional effort

Fire-Dragon-DoL 6y ago

I have a public (within the company) github repo called "worklog" where everyone can put theirs (it's by name), one file per year. I usually have 4-5 lines per day, where some days have 15 (rare, but there are those big days). I don't give the report in slack, since github has track of when stuff was committed (I commit at the end of the day), if people need it, it's on github. It's great for standups, because I usually forget what I did yesterday. It's also great for some company tax reductions, so it's appreciated! Last but not least, I capture breakthrougs and decisions in there, as well as learning, so I can refer to it various months later and tell people exactly what I was doing a certain date. At some point people asked "why this wasn't already done, what were you doing in August last year"... And I was able to clearly explain what I was doing in August and why things were not prioritized. Overall, great win! Just to clarify, I didn't come up with this idea myself, it was suggested to me on the Eventide Slack https://eventide-project.org/#community-section https://eventide-project.org/#community-section Apparently it's a common practice in engineering (should be in software engineering too!), I currently follow this log structure: https://github.com/eventide-project/project-status/blob/master/work-log/README.md https://github.com/eventide-project/project-status/blob/mast...

johntash 6y ago
> It's also great for some company tax reductions, so it's appreciated! Can you explain what you mean by company tax reductions? I'm confused how that relates with keeping a worklog.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 6y ago
  Specific to Canada, there is a tax reduction thing for the company of this size (the one I work at), that has some specific requirements related to experimenting and tracking time spent on various activities. It can be summarized per day though, this means that I just have to turn in my work-log for this purpose, with no additional effort