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= Timesheets for engineers =
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Two types of funding: fixed-cost and cost-reimbursement
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Rules that come with government funding: includes timesheets
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Problem:
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* We don't give you specific directions for how to pick your numbers
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* Andrew doesn't clarify ("be accurate!")
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We specifically don't tell you how to track the time. (If we do specify,
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we have to justify the instructions to our auditors.)
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Only the ratio of hours to sponsors is used. The absolute numbers are
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never used.
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And it's only used to ask our funders for the right amount of money.
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Part of tor-exec's job is to make all the deliverables for funders broad
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and overlapping.
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There exist plenty of other reasons to track hours you spend on tasks: agile, project
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management tracking, etc. But those aren't timesheets.
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You're not supposed to lie ("please say 5 for that day"). But you *can* change your behavior ("please work more hours on SponsorL").
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The plan:
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* Melissa will mail you to tell you what ratios you should do; and please let us know early if you're not going to match those ratios.
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* Should we also tell you who else is funded by that same sponsor?
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* And/or should we just expose the whole budget to everybody (but using ratios rather than absolute numbers)? |
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