Comments on: Usability work on internal capgemini application

By: Pravin

Pravin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:25:40 +0000

Nice work.
Are you able to change the interface? I see that your post is 2 yr old.

By: Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Jesper Rønn-Jensen — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:16:20 +0000

@Simon B.
Right now, we’re not working actively on it. The interface you see above for now exists only as a screenshot, but the issue hereis that we want to apply it for the internal Capgemini time reporting system.

And despite our efforts, there are some technical issues making it extremely hard and non-trivial to implement as a working version (in my view, it only has value if we can actually use it directly for “real” timereporting)

The technical issues were partly solved by our Ruby on Rails plugin “Reform”, read
http://justaddwater.dk/2007/09/11/busy-preparing-railsconf-presentation/
and
http://reform.caplab.dk/

But the legacy timereporting app itself has several issues that makes it hard. Most are mentioned in our RailsConf presentation PDF. Check it out on http://reform.caplab.dk/raw-attachment/wiki/WikiStart/railsconf-2007-mads%2Bjesper-screenscraping%2Breform.pdf

By: Simon B.

Simon B. — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:02:40 +0000

Are you implementing Qlockwise? What language? Any possibilities of an open source frontend and db for backend? It could be useful for your testing before integrating old systems…

By: Flemming Carlsen

Flemming Carlsen — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:39:10 +0000

Sorry Jesper -

I have something with names – i just want to call you Thomas all the time…

By: Flemming Carlsen

Flemming Carlsen — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:36:47 +0000

Hi Thomas,

Good to see som effort being put into an often used – and a bit annoying – web application. As an consultant I have been used to time reporting for a long time. I have seen many time reporting systems – including SAP’s (sigh) – and a lot others.

The way I have survived so far is by using the ever familiar tool – the Outlook calendar. I started eight years ago – defined a few simple rules to the appointments and built an interface to the current time reporting system.
Outlook has a simple interface with drag/drop and cut/paste – and we use it anyway to tell the colleagues where you are and to plan meetings.
Why register more than once was my reason to start..

Today I use it to bill my customers, make detailed activity reports and mileage reports. And when every week has passed by, I use it as input to the time reporting system you are currently working on..

By: Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Jesper Rønn-Jensen — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:04:36 +0000

Thanks emil and tracer.

I updated the link so it now points to the larger version.

By: tracer

tracer — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:47:34 +0000

Both images do :(

(tried removing the “-thumbnail” from the file to no avail)

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:50:00 +0000

Hi, nice to see others are doing something similar that we do. I’ve been part of building an internal system for keeping track of consultants’ time too, in a small rails-app of course :)

One minor thing, the first image links to the thumbnail, not a larger version.