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That was interesting and correct me if I misunderstood. So, their CTO asked the team(of 3 members) to work through the Christmas week even when they had been w

by devsda 2y ago

That was interesting and correct me if I misunderstood. So, their CTO asked the team(of 3 members) to work through the Christmas week even when they had been working like crazy for weeks and are on the verge of burnout. The author asks them to take the week off while lying to the CTO that the team has been hitting milestone xyz. The dev team came back fresh from holidays and hit the milestones. There are some management lessons in there on what to do, what not to do, how/why developers get insane deadlines and how they end up with burnout. I was expecting the lie to be about a technical or design decision since "CTO" was mentioned and how that saved the day.

CRConrad 2y ago
> That was interesting and correct me if I misunderstood. Yeah, seems you did, so here's your correction: > The author asks them to take the week off while lying to the CTO that the team has been hitting milestone xyz. No, he didn't exactly "lie" to the CTO; the team had really been hitting those milestones. Just not when the CTO thought they did. > The dev team came back fresh from holidays and hit the milestones. No, they'd already hit them before they took the week off. The only thing the author lied about was the timing, doling the already-done milestones out bit by bit to the CTO while the team were away.