Project Hours Tracking
What is Project Hours Tracking?
An introduction to Strova's project hours feature — real actual hours per person per project, set against planned hours, with variance.
Project hours tracking is a Business plan feature for teams that work across multiple projects at once. Instead of measuring a single team's output, it reports how many hours each person actually spent on each project — and sets those actual hours against what was planned, so you can see the gap.
The numbers come straight from daily standups. Nobody fills out a separate timesheet.
How It Works
When a team is configured as a multi-project team, each standup update is broken down into individual activities — tasks, meetings, and PR reviews — each tied to a project. For every activity Strova records:
- Planned hours — what was scoped or estimated for the work
- Actual hours — the time the member confirms they actually spent
Because every member reports their own time, these are true man-hours: if three people each spend two hours in the same meeting, that's six man-hours, not two.
What You Can See
The Project Hours report is a table with one row per date (or week), project, and member, showing:
- Planned hours for that row
- Actual hours actually logged
- Variance — the difference between the two, colour-coded so over-runs and under-estimates stand out
A totals bar sums planned, actual, and variance across everything you've filtered to. See Viewing project hours for the full walkthrough.
Who Can See Project Hours?
| Role | What they can see |
|---|---|
| Member | Their own project hours only |
| Team Lead | All members on their team |
| Admin / Owner | All teams and all members, plus CSV export and project management |
Enabling Project Hours for a Team
Project hours tracking is only active for teams marked as multi-project. See Multi-project teams for how to enable this on a team.
Good to Know
- Actual hours are self-reported and confirmed by each member from their standup — every number can be traced back to the update it came from.
- For accurate hours, members should name the project they worked on in their updates. See Multi-project teams.
- A planned item a member never confirms is flagged as missing and counts as zero actual hours, which shows up as variance.
- The feature is available on the Business plan only.