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I'm surprised that they developed a brand new time tracking tool. From my limited experience, it seems Deltek Time & Expense is the most popular time tracking a

by krapht 11y ago

I'm surprised that they developed a brand new time tracking tool. From my limited experience, it seems Deltek Time & Expense is the most popular time tracking application in the government / associated contractor space.

untog 11y ago
Given that there is no download link or price, I'm going to assume that 18F is not the kind of place that was going to pay top dollar for a cruddy, expensive third party service.
- seanherron 11y ago
  >>> Given that there is no download link or price Like everything 18F produces, Tock is a work of the US Government and is in the public domain. There's a link to the GitHub repository in the blog post (https://github.com/18f/tock https://github.com/18f/tock). We don't intend to launch Tock as a service, rather, it's something we made for internal use that is open for others if they find value in it.
  - bovermyer 11y ago
    I think he was referring to Deltek, not Tock.
- phonon 11y ago
  Here's Deltek's GSA schedule (price list page 20 and on), though I don't know which product includes "Time & Expense". https://www.gsaadvantage.gov/ref_text/GS35F0004P/0NIRVO.31QOG4_GS-35F-0004P_DELTEKGSAGS35F0004PMOD0026.PDF https://www.gsaadvantage.gov/ref_text/GS35F0004P/0NIRVO.31QO...
bovermyer 11y ago
As a former subcontractor that was forced to use Deltek for a couple years, I will agree that it's the most popular... but I haven't the faintest notion of why. It wasn't the worst option available, but that didn't stop it from being terrible regardless. Time-tracking keeps getting reinvented because no one's solved it definitively yet. I don't think anyone ever will, either; time tracking relies too much on individual context for it to be wholly standardized.