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Racer Nick (nickja)
Race Number 401
Date Sat, 29 Mar 2014 3:29:10
Speed 50 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 96.8%
Rank 4th place (out of 5)
Opponents dockterjd@yahoo.com (3rd place) winniehe (5th 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.
— (book) by Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister (see stats)