Time Tracking - Limiting hours

[Christopher Curio]

I am looking for a way to control the amount of hours that can be tracked to a specific project by a team then see statistics and even get alarms if the project is approaching it's maximum or is projected to reach some threshold in a single month or week or whatever the expected time for the project would be.

There are tools but they seem to only do this at the incident or ticket level. What if I had a project that was allocated to a specific project or customer can I easily track time allocated in that project and limit how much time can be logged against that project in some span of time.

[Ayça Erdem_OBSS_]

Hello @Christopher Curio 

welcome to the community!

If you're looking to track and control the total time spent on a project rather than at the ticket level, many time-tracking tools primarily focus on individual worklogs, making it challenging to get a project-level overview with predefined limits.

While Timepiece - Time in Status for Jira, developed by our team at OBSS, does not impose time limits on logging, it allows you to analyze the time issues spend in each status, giving you insights into the overall progress of a project. By monitoring the time spent in statuses such as "In Progress" or "Waiting for Review", you can get a sense of whether work is exceeding the expected time allocation for a project.

If you'd like to explore this solution further, feel free to check out Timepiece on the Atlassian Marketplace or schedule a demo with us for a walkthrough of the app's features.

Hope it helps,

Ayça

[Valerie Knapp]

Hi @Christopher Curio , welcome to the Atlassian Community and thanks for your question.

If you would be open to using an app for this, we use this one in my company https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1210816/projectrak-the-project-management-solution-for-jira?hosting=cloud&tab=overview .

You can have a series of attributes at the project level, both custom fields and progress / completeness tracker. You can try out the free trial and see if it's what you need. 

Cheers

[Christopher Curio]

Thanks for the reply. I have no issue at all using an app if it gets the job done.

The main thing my boss is looking for is basically we are an MSP and each of our customers has a project in jira

Each month they may get a block of project hours which they purchase. He wants to be able to limit the number of hours our engineers can log to the project at a certain cap..

Whereas it will either not allow any more hours to be logged or alert us or some other avenue of notification.