Modern projects often blend employees with contractors, freelancers, and agency resources.
Each group typically uses different time tracking methods, creating a fragmented picture of actual project effort. Consider a typical project team: five full-time employees tracking in the corporate HRIS system, three contractors submitting weekly spreadsheets, and two agency designers whose time comes in monthly invoices with minimal detail.
When the project manager needs total hours spent on the project, they face a data aggregation nightmare. Employee hours export from the HRIS in one format.
Contractor spreadsheets use inconsistent categories—some track by task, others by day, others by deliverable. Agency invoices show only totals, not daily or task-level detail.
Combining these sources requires manual normalization, guesswork about categorization, and acceptance that the resulting number is approximate at best. This fragmentation has real consequences.
Project profitability calculations are inaccurate because true effort is unknown. Resource planning for future projects uses flawed historical data.
Budget tracking throughout the project misses contractor overruns until invoices arrive. Some contractor hours get double-counted while others get missed entirely.
A unified platform that accommodates all worker types solves this. When employees, contractors, and agencies all log time in the same system using the same project codes, reporting becomes accurate.
Total project effort is visible in real time. Resource allocation decisions can be made with complete data.
The GitScrum Advantage
One unified platform to eliminate context switching and recover productive hours.
