Comments on: Time Ratchet http://blog.devauld.ca/2010/06/06/time-ratchet/ Where to get your Wes Sat, 29 Oct 2011 04:39:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Bil http://blog.devauld.ca/2010/06/06/time-ratchet/comment-page-1/#comment-849 Bil Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:29:27 +0000 http://blog.devauld.ca/?p=507#comment-849 If I ever go back to managing other people, I'd like to incorporate critical chain management: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Chain_Project_Management) as an experiment. It sounds particularly good at recognizing the need for some contingency buffers in what you do. If I ever go back to managing other people, I’d like to incorporate critical chain management: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Chain_Project_Management) as an experiment. It sounds particularly good at recognizing the need for some contingency buffers in what you do.

]]> By: Mike Verdone http://blog.devauld.ca/2010/06/06/time-ratchet/comment-page-1/#comment-842 Mike Verdone Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:22:45 +0000 http://blog.devauld.ca/?p=507#comment-842 Sometimes I have the opposite problem. I procrastinate on chores because I imagine they will take hours but in fact only take minutes. I find I have a lot less time ratcheting now that I live in Berlin. Things get delayed but people are just... relaxed about it. When my friends say to meet at a bar at 10, I don't expect to see them until 12 because they will first be at another party, or someone's house, and then they leave late and the train might take a while to come... etc. But that's just how it is. Nobody minds. Sometimes I have the opposite problem. I procrastinate on chores because I imagine they will take hours but in fact only take minutes.

I find I have a lot less time ratcheting now that I live in Berlin. Things get delayed but people are just… relaxed about it. When my friends say to meet at a bar at 10, I don’t expect to see them until 12 because they will first be at another party, or someone’s house, and then they leave late and the train might take a while to come… etc. But that’s just how it is. Nobody minds.

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