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I put in a hell of a lot of time over the last couple months looking at production numbers and the like. We're using per day production goals for each of our crews as part of their monthly incentive program. Each crew, planting, construction and details has their own average daily production goal each month, as well as the landscape division as a whole.
I looked at a whole lot of previous jobs to come up with production values for our most common tasks and put them into a moderately complicated excel sheet for estimating. That sheet is given to the foremen when they start a job and they will track their times on each task to try and stay within the hours alotted.
In terms of tracking production, I think that daily rates are important, but that is really more of a function of how well you have gotten your hourly production estimates figured. That said... it's a whole lot easier to track daily production in any kind of coherent fashion and if those numbers start to come up funny go back and check the job sheets for where the hours are being burnt.
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Jesse
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