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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri
2) "Fluff" time - Always Always Always allow yourself a bit more time than what you initially expected. If you think manufacturing will take 2 weeks, allow yourself 2 weeks and 2 days. There are ALWAYS unforeseen problems that pop up.
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If you explicitly pad the schedule and expect it to take 2 weeks and 2 days, it'll expand again and take 2 weeks and a half. Dealing with this apparent law of nature is difficult. Try fooling the schedule gremlin and officially allot only the original 2 weeks, while not starting anything else that depends on its being done until a couple of days afterward.
This represents the "fluff" as unscheduled time, so it looks bad from an efficiency point of view, but I think it's better than giving in to the urge to put running late on a task into the original schedule.