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Re: Help me keep track of the time I spend writing, with meetings, and with Graphics.
Subject:Re: Help me keep track of the time I spend writing, with meetings, and with Graphics. From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:41:57 -0800
If you already know that the freelancer is taking 5-10 times
longer than you to do "the easy part," you are already doing
as good a job of "tracking" his work as you need to be doing.
"What is wrong there" is:
1. The guy takes 5-10 times as long as you to do work
you consider "the easy part.".
2. You let him.
> Is there a way... to also keep track of the work the freelancer is doing for
> me using one of this application? I mean, it is not that I don't trust him
> or that I mind that he is not working 100% of the time or that I want to
> breathe down his neck, it is just that it is really hard to evaluate what he
> is doing and whether he is truly working on our documentation. He takes
> about 5 to 10 times longer than I have in the past to update a same
> document. So, how can I figure out what is wrong there and fix it if I know
> exactly the changes that are involved.
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