Define: "Bikeshedding" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Feign a hard stopHard stopA polite way to say 'I have another meeting where they are also wasting my time.' and leave the meeting. They will pick a color eventually."
Disproportionate focus on trivial or minor details while neglecting larger or more important issues.
What does "Bikeshedding" actually mean?
"A committee ignoring the unencrypted core database to spend three hours debating what shade of blue the login button should be."
"Let's avoid bikeshedding on this call and focus on the main deliverables."
"We are totally stalled by bikeshedding; the project manager cares more about the font in the documentation than the BGP routing table."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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