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Re:Ask HN: Teach me something new by mirekrusin on Saturday April 30, 2022 @06:09AM (#31214762)
If the project is planned according to median, you accept up front that there is 50% chance the project will be late.
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Re:Ask HN: Teach me something new by waqf on Saturday April 30, 2022 @07:21AM (#31215127)
It's worse than that. You need the median time for the whole project, which you can't get just from summing the medians of the individual tasks.
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