Lighthouse: Time Management

Why Use Lighthouse to Manage your Timesheets?

Tracking time by itself is pointless. Your team can say it worked 8 hours or 18 hours, how do you know otherwise? The real opportunity in tracking time is to associate it with something specific.

Lighthouse Timesheets enable you to track time against any object within Lighthouse - a defect, requirement, task, anything. That way, you can gain specific context on how productive and profitable your team really is. If you're not measuring that, there's no reason to track time.

Compare Timesheets in the various Lighthouse editions below, or just try it yourself.

Compare Timesheet features within different Lighthouse editions:

  Free Edition Standard Edition Team Edition Enterprise Edition
Features        
Track Time & Cost Per ProjectWith Lighthouse, you can easily track your resources' time and bill rate to determine if your project is within budget. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Track Task % CompleteWith Lighthouse, it is easy to track the percent completion of each of your project plan tasks as well as the hours spent on each task. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Measure Schedule VarianceFind out if you are going to deliver your tasks early, on-time or late.. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Track Time by ActivityEach hour can be attributed to any number of activities like coding, meetings or Foos Ball. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Add NotesAdd notes and comments to your timesheet line items. - Yes Yes Yes
Formal Timesheet ReviewHave your Project Managers or clients review timesheets with the ability to approve or reject them. - Yes Yes Yes
Approve/Reject TimesheetsEvery timesheet can be approved or rejected as part of your development methodology. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Manage LeaveIn addition to tracking time and hours spent on your project, you can also track and approve leave requests. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Timesheet SettingsLighthouse provides many Timesheet settings for you. You can control the time period, activity types, approval process and much more. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Export to Your Billing SystemTake your Lighthouse Timesheets and export them to a standard, delimited format. Yes Yes Yes Yes
TraceabilityTraceability means tracking where your resources are spending their time. Link the hours to Change Requests, Defects, Tests, Tasks, Requirements and so much more. Yes Yes Yes Yes
ReportsLighthouse comes with many predefined timesheet reports. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Collaboration        
Basic Roles (3 uneditable)Your users are assigned to roles which control access to your requirements. You can choose from 3 pre-defined roles. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Basic Roles (3 editable)Your users are assigned to roles which control access to your requirements. You can choose from (and modify) 3 pre-defined roles. - Yes Yes Yes
Unlimited RolesCreate as many roles as you want to control access to your Requirements and assign them to your users. Create some for your clients, executives, developers, QA engineers, and many more. - Yes Yes Yes
Basic NotificationsEvery time a requirement is added or updated, notifications are emailed to the requirement owner and the assignee. The owner is the one who originally entered the requirement. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Notifications (editable)Change the notification rule, message and distribution list. Easily add other users/roles to the distribution list. - Yes Yes Yes
Unlimited NotificationsCreate as many notification rules as you want to. At Artifact, we have 26! - No Yes Yes
My Assignments DashboardEasily see your requirements when you first log in to Lighthouse. - Yes Yes Yes
Project Activities DashboardSee real-time daily, weekly and monthly activity for all your requirements across all your projects. - No Yes Yes
Customization        
Custom ReportsCreate any report you want. Requirements Traceability, Matrix and History reports are some of our more popular ones. Automatically email them to your peers. - No No Yes
Custom ColorsChange your Lighthouse Account colors. Choose from one of our defined templates or create your own. - No No Yes
Hide TabsHide Lighthouse tabs to control what your users can see and have access too. - No No Yes
Custom MethodologiesChange Lighthouse to support your methodology. Support for Agile, Waterfall, RUP and Hybrid methodologies are available. - No No Yes
Specs        
ProjectsEach edition provides a certain number of projects and users per project. 1 unlimited unlimited unlimited
SupportTwo levels of support are provided. Basic support is available via user forums, blogs and documentation. Premium support also includes email and phone, with guaranteed response time. basic premium premium premium
Hosted or On PremiseHosted Lighthouse means Lighthouse is accessible on our servers. On Premise means you can install a complete version of Lighthouse behind your firewall. hosted hosted hosted either
Annual Cost per User Free $99 $199 $299
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