> I wouldn't be so cut-and-dry with your assertion that the parent post is "lying". yetihehe is not accusing the parent poster of lying, they're telling them t

> I wouldn't be so cut-and-dry with your assertion that the parent post is "lying". yetihehe is not accusing the parent poster of lying, they're telling them to lie. To claim the work will be X (just the feature, perhaps), and then slip in the extra work (tackling tech debt and other issues), and letting the work schedule "slip" (which they can do because they have a "chill PM").