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See Ed Yourdan's book:<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0137483104/002-0265562-1415214?v=glance&n=283155<br /><br />A death march project is characterized as being short on resources with unrealistic feature, functionality and performance requirements.<br /><br />In summary:<br /><br />"A death march project is one for which an unbiased, objective risk assessment (which includes an assessment of technical risks, personnel risks, legal risks, political risks, etc.) determines that the likelihood of failure is greater than 50 percent."<br /><br />Florida Today seems to think so:<br /><br />http://www.space.com/news/ft_060326_sts121_rtf_schedule.html<br /><br />"Three months before the planned launch of shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts, NASA again is under dangerous pressure to fly so it can finish the International Space Station by 2010.<br /><br />Once again, NASA has delivered a revamped external fuel tank to Kennedy Space Center before finishing tests to prove whether it is safe to fly."<br />