[the_duke]

Which usually have very low time restrictions in the order of a few minutes.

[bdcravens]

Break your operation into a series of discreet tasks. For 99% of use cases, if you have an discreet task that takes 5+ minutes, there's a problem. In most cases, it can be split up.

[lmm]

"Discrete" rather than "discreet", but yes.