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The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

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Tom DeMarco
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: August 20
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Software Engineer
Writer
Hazleton
Pennsylvania
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