The author is a little more gracious than I would have been: Bikeshedding -- in a past large enterprise that I worked, bikeshedding was most frequently employe

The author is a little more gracious than I would have been: Bikeshedding -- in a past large enterprise that I worked, bikeshedding was most frequently employed in staff meetings that involved multiple levels of management. Middle-management and administrative staff would inject (often extremely project-disruptive) ideas into non-trivial things[0], but things "they understood enough to talk about" in an attempt to appear that they had a deeper understanding of the project. Thankfully, upper management was solid and saw through it, consistently. [0] Small bullet point to move a task co-ordination database from its MSSQL version to a supported version ends up in an explanation of why our "Data Warehousing Solution" can't solve this problem for us ... it's hard to reason with someone when you're coming from a place of knowledge, and they're in that same place, just in some other universe where things don't mean what they mean here ... I remember "Data Lake" and making a quip about drowning, insulting the guy accidentally but not suffering any fallout.