PERSONAL DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY METRICS

(PDPM)

YOUR PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY

email.pdpm@gmail.com

http://pdpm.sourceforge.net

AGENDA

What is PDPM

Uses of PDPM

Features

Demo

Utility and Reuse

Vision & Future Extensibility

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WHAT IS PDPM

PDPM is productivity measurement and personal time management tool

PDPM uses the concept of measuring “work” through “application usage”

Outlook® Email

Word® Documentation

PDPM runs in the background and collects everything that user does on the PC

This information is presented in useful format in the form of Daily Reports

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REPORT FORMAT

Summary

User Name

Computer Name

Login Time

Logout Time

Total Day Working Time

Details

Breakup shown with Actual Time, Percentage, Bar Chart

Breakup by Categories

Breakup by Applications

Very Detailed: Details of every application run during the day

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SAMPLE REPORT (HTML FORMAT)

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See full report at: http://pdpm.sourceforge.net/sample_report.htm

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SAMPLE REPORT (HTML FORMAT)

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See full report at: http://pdpm.sourceforge.net/sample_report.htm

USES

Automatic time keeper: Accurately measures and reports time

spent on all activities during day

Time Management and Productivity Improvement: Knowing how

I spent my day helps me to plan and manage my time better

Automatic Effort Tracking: If I want to know time spent on a

specific activity, I can find out accurately

Example, I want to know how much time I spent on a proposal,

Or time spent on coding today

This data can be used to fill up timesheets with actual efforts

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HOW DO YOU USE PDPM

Download PDPM from http://pdpm.sourceforge.net

No configuration required, by default

No user intervention required

PDPM runs in the background

Started automatically on user logon

Completely non-intrusive

Not visible to user

Does not hog machine resources

Reports generated automatically

At the end of the day at midnight

If the machine is shutdown for the night, the next day

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… HOW DO YOU USE PDPM

To see reports

Start Menu shortcuts

“Today’s Realtime Report”

Up-to-date report of today’s work

Configuration

Many normal applications are recognised by PDPM automatically

If user has an application not recognised, she can configure in a simple text file

Start Menu shortcut is provided for configuration

Help FAQ provided

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IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

Aimed to be light-weight, non-intrusive, platform independent

to the extent possible

Backend in C/C++ which uses Win32 API for tracking

Core in Java

HTML Reports

Browser independent

Batch files, scripts

No special UI

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UTILITY AND REUSE

Intended to be personal tool

Not for monitoring

Can be used by anyone

Extremely user-friendly

No techie terms/configurations

Can be used by anyone for

Personal Time Management and productivity improvement

Automatic effort tracking to fill up timesheets

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OUR VISION & FUTURE EXTENSIBILITY

The challenge is to present data in the format that can be of

direct use

PDPM collects a lot of raw data, which can lend itself to be

post processed further and presented in useful format

Hence, we think it has potential, adaptable to further needs

What do you want to know?

A timeline of everything you have done from morning?

Time you have spent on ACME proposal?

which can include time spent on research on net, discussing email with

prospect and others in MindTree, proposal documentation, time spent on

telecons, …

Total time I have spent on PDPM till now

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Need help from people to try out and see how it works

Feedback on how it can be made more useful

Need developers

We would like to make the interface as simple as possible – no fancy UI

Only browser as far as possible (HTML, Javascript, AJAX)

Simple browser interfaces for configuration, calendar functionality, etc.

Port to Linux

See: http://pdpm.sourceforge.net/developers.html

Contact: email.pdpm@gmail.com

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Download and use today!

http://pdpm.sourceforge.net

Feedback

email.pdpm@gmail.com