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Racer Sarah (2015smaxwell55)
Race Number 8
Date Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:27:46 +0000
Speed 53 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 92.3%
Rank 1st place (out of 3)
Opponents 2017apatane14 (2nd place)

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The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed. Even the strategy of picking the "most likely date" is not particularly safe, as the area to the left of the peak of the curve is barely a third. That says there is a two-thirds chance of missing the deadline.
Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects (book) by Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister (see stats)