> 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.
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.