Being honest in your planning is a subtle problem. You'll probably not start lying about big things, but rather on subtle tweaks here and there.

For example, it would be easy to shave 10% off everyone's amount of hours across the entire project to make it fit within the time boxes available. This is a small paper tweak that hardly anyone would know. But if the design really needs to take 100% of the time (rather than your shaved 90%), no amount of lies will make that reality different.

And in the end, you'll have a harder time explaining why the project has gone off rails.

When you tell one lie, it leads to another...

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