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I have never seen even a software project on schedule, including all of mine and everything I encountered in the academia.

Building new things is genuinely hard.

But I have seen some serious, albeit delayed, successes.



From my previous reading, Excel 3 was one of the rare cases that the team pushed out the product only one week late.


On budget is also rare.

Humans are relentlessly overoptimistic in their planning, and that's likely because if we weren't we often wouldn't even start... plus, the future is really, really hard to predict.




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