{"id":613,"date":"2020-12-08T10:44:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T09:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2021-01-21T09:16:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T08:16:10","slug":"visualize-time-with-timetimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/visualize-time-with-timetimer\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualize time with TimeTimer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How do you keep track of time when you facilitate a retrospective or other meetings? How do you make sure you keep timeboxes? A timer on a smart phone is one way to do it, but for me it lacks visibility. I forget the timebox and only remember it, when it\u2019s used  up. And it&#8217;s even less visible for participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timetimer.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" src=\"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/TimeTimer.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-614\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What works beautifully are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timetimer.com\/\">TimeTimers<\/a>.  With a TimeTimer you set the timebox by pulling out a red disk. As soon  as you let go, the red disk slowly starts retreating back below the white parts. That way you always have a pie chart of the remaining time.  Elegant, easy to use and it communicates time very effectively!<\/p>\n\n\n<h3><strong>PS: Did you know there's a Retromat eBook Bundle? Ready-made retrospective plans for beginners and all activities from Retromat for experienced facilitators. <a href=\"https:\/\/leanpub.com\/b\/retromat-bundle-agile-retrospectives\">Check out the Retromat books<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you keep track of time when you facilitate a retrospective or other meetings? How do you make sure you keep timeboxes? A timer on a smart phone is one way to do it, but for me it lacks visibility. I forget the timebox and only remember it, when it\u2019s used up. And it&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/visualize-time-with-timetimer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Visualize time with TimeTimer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}