> 20. Bike-Shed Effect: A group of people working on a project will fight over the most trivial ideas. They’ll ignore what’s complicated. They’ll focus too much

> 20. Bike-Shed Effect: A group of people working on a project will fight over the most trivial ideas. They’ll ignore what’s complicated. They’ll focus too much on easy-to-understand ideas at the expense of important, but hard to talk about ideas. For example, instead of approving plans for a complicated spaceship, the team would argue over the color of the astronaut's uniforms. That's not quite what I understood by the bike-shed effect. In the version I heard, although the approval committee would indeed descend into endless arguments over the colour of the astronauts' uniforms, the complicated spaceship would get passed through on the nod: no one on the committee understands the technical details of the latter, so they defer to the experts, while they all grasp, and can make a contribution to, a decision on the former (or at least think they can).