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Duration Prevents Pencil Whipping

Understand how to verify your task lists are being done over the proper amount of time to do the job right! Prevent pencil whipping

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Written by Stephanie Jarm
Updated over 2 years ago

When you have a long task list, it's important to define how long those individual jobs should take to prevent pencil whipping.

Pencil whipping is the term for flying through a checklist with your pen, filling in all the answers, and not spending the right amount of time verifying the answers. Pencil whipping can indicate a lack of care for the job at hand, and Blanket allows you to define this with the Duration Setting.

Find the Duration setting in the Settings tab of the template builder. Set whatever amount of time you want as the minimum possible time it would take to perform this list properly. Users of this task list will never see this information. This is for your reporting eyes only.

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