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

Tom DeMarco
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Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects”, p.57, Addison-Wesley
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.