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Re: Team Update #13

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Originally Posted by Nick Lawrence View Post
I like the hard deadline, but I like a less claustrophobic build time more.
Parkinson's Law -- "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." Even if they gave us 12 weeks, I'm quite sure the final week would be claustrophobic.

I have yet to be on a team that did not run up against this law. (In my FLL days, probably 40% of the work was done in the week prior to the competition, and we had 3.5 months!)
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