I personally find it annoying that many of the beneficial timed programs have a pathetically short duration (many as low as 15-20 minutes). I also have observed that, while in teams, there are very frequent pauses lasting up to several minutes so that people can 'rebuff'. This usually hampers the flow of whatever it is the team is doing to some extent.
To alleviate the annoyance factor associated with frequent interruptions, I suggest adding an item that you can equip into your computer deck that increases the duration of friendly timed programs by a percentage or fixed duration.
Such a thing might look like:
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Name: NCU Memory of Bliss
Description: Install this NCU Memory inside your Component Platform. NOTE: You need to have a NCU Deck Slot available to equip it... (The number of usable slots is decided by your NCU component belt...)
Type: weapon
Slot: deck 4 (or whatever)
QL: 200
Requirements computer literacy >= 850 (note the high CL requirement, to balance out the benefit of increased program duration)
Effects:
modify self ncu memory 64
modify self nano program duration + 600 (seconds)
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Of course, lower level versions of this item could/should exist, with proportionately high CL requirements.
Note also that this follows the paradigm of the recently introduced (and well-received) 'Morphing Memory', just with a different advantage.