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84: Work Cycles with Shawn Blanc

Process - The Journey to Productivity and Effectiveness

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The Advantages of Six Week Cycles

At Basecamp, we do a six week project cycle and then one week of sabbatical. Sean McCabe is a good friend of mine and he does aOne week sabbatical every seventh week. He's like, let's take some time off on a regular like weekly schedule too. And I'm like, hey, what if we just put these two things together, just kind of mashing together? We adjusted ours to be eight weeks. So that's the whole eight weeks. Six weeks of focus work, one week of buffer, one weekSabbatical, repeat.

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