Nearly a third of Coding War Games participants completed the exercise with zero defects, and the zero-defect group took slightly less time on average than participants with defects.

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"Nearly a third of Coding War Games participants completed the exercise with zero defects, and the zero-defect group took slightly less time on average than participants with defects."

DeMarco and Lister report that nearly a third produced zero-defect results and that this group paid no speed penalty, taking slightly less time on average.

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Source title Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 3rd edition

Source authors Tom DeMarco; Tim Lister

Source year 2013

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