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Racer kira (kira200515)
Race Number 478
Date Sun, 29 Jan 2023 10:31:28
Speed 65 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 94.7%
Rank 5th place (out of 5)
Opponents rookun007 (4th place) thumbfist (3rd 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)

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