Section Choosing: teams
Selections for teams and time
The same discipline applied to workforce tools, where the class of tool decides the outcome more than any feature.
Teams applying this principle can also compare practical guidance on weekly timesheet template, keeping time and activity records separate from the judgement they are meant to inform.
Seven situations, each starting from the class of tool, because the class decides the outcome more than any feature list does. The article on four classes in the workforce section is the prerequisite for all of them.
Three rules apply here as they do to every selection on this site. No scores of our own. No claim to have tested anything. Every option carries a line describing what it costs you.
Two additional limits apply to this section specifically. Legal material is general, names its jurisdiction and is not advice. And nothing here describes how to monitor people without their knowledge, how to avoid a notification duty, or how to make capture difficult to detect, however the question is framed.
Published
- 01
When somebody above you has already decided
The decision is closed and almost everything that determines how badly it goes is still open.
Read - 02
Contractors billed by the hour
The thing being measured is the thing being sold, which makes this the clearest case in the market and the easiest one to overreach on.
Read - 03
A distributed team under European rules
The sequence runs purpose, means, assessment, consultation, notice, then deployment, and starting at the end costs a year.
Read
Everything in this section
- 6 min readWhen somebody above you has already decided
- 6 min readContractors billed by the hour
- 7 min readA distributed team under European rules
- 6 min readWhen you need defensible records rather than oversight
- 7 min readWhen the concern is data leaving, not time spent
- 6 min readA team that will resent it, and should be asked first
- 7 min readWhat to check before signing, whatever you chose
Further context
For a primary, standards or institutional reference, see the Web Vitals reference.
Start from the class of problem, not the list of tools
Every selection here names the situation first and the criteria second. Product names come last, and each one carries the line describing what it costs you.