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The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day

This was several years back. Keep in mind that early in my career, my father had told me that doing a good job often meant doing what needed to be done in spite of your boss. And by that he meant that you can either make your boss successful and happy or you can run every decision by your boss. In which case no one is successful or happy. I was working at the time for a Fortune 500 company and our CTO had signed up to deliver a big project for an important client with whom he had personal connections.

I was working at the time for a Fortune 500 company and our CTO had signed up to deliver a big project for an important client with whom he had personal connections. A decision was made to hide this limitation from the client and go live a month late, but in the meantime start a skunkworks project to replace the vendor integration. Today we hit milestone integration point #73.” “The team made good progress yesterday, we finished another web service.”

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