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in reply to Timesheets: What are they good for?

Time sheets a good for measuring activity, not performance. Unless you're a consulting company (mostly concerned about billable hours), there's a big difference between the two.

Ideally, the timesheet information is used to build a database of metrics that are fed back into project estimation process. If you're development processes are consistent, this is useful. However, I've rarely seen this implemented successfully.