Time Spent
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It would be nice to add the abbility to add to each issue a "tag" like the estime for real time spent
timespent X
and be able to show it in a chart and a table. These can be useful to know the real amount of hours spent in each issue and with this is possible to know the real cost.
Time spent vs. remaining is a very interesting topic. There is a fundamental difference between focusing on the time spend and time remaining. I've been studying gitlab lately (with a view to port Yoda to support GitLab as well; it will not necessarily be so difficult BTW). GitLab introduces for issues both > estimate (like Yoda) and > timespend (as you suggest). The idea is that you update the estimate at the same time that you update > timespend, thereby effectively given an idea of the work remaining (estimate - time spend).
However, I'm still not convinced that this is the best way to do Agile PM. Asking people to track time (which is effectively what you do, when you ask to report time spend) is in my view not aligned with the spirit of Agile PM....
This discussion is indeed a very interesting and fundamental one, so I'm certainly open to input :-)
We are actually using a spreadsheet for this. The idea is just to give some input to the management team to calculate the ROI of each feature and understand which one were good calls and which ones weren't.
I understand is not related to agile pming and make sense not to have it in the tool!
I think this tool would be in line with Agile. From the Agile manifesto:
- Responding to change over Following a plan
I think responding to change means being able to understand how much effort has gone into something, and seeing if the remaining effort goes down at the same rate. Like, if you spend a day working on something and you log this as time spent, and then you have a meeting and you are blocked and the estimated time remaining stays the same (by raising the estimated time), then you must respond to change. You must figure out why are you having the obstacle, and who to talk to about it. The use of timespent + time remaining is a valuable indicator that enables you to notice this objectively.