BASD: Bait and Switch Development: You get buy-in from a co-worker for a cutting-edge, poorly documented, sexy but controversial technical approach by promisin

BASD: Bait and Switch Development: You get buy-in from a co-worker for a cutting-edge, poorly documented, sexy but controversial technical approach by promising to do the programming yourself. Co-worker doesn't raise the kind of objections he'd normally raise if it were his project and his problem, because he doesn't want to tell you how to do your own job ("bait"). Then, when it becomes impossible to meet the deadline, you convince management that you're badly needed in a different area, so they assign your coworker to "finish" off the project, except now he has to work within the straightjacket he always suspected you were creating for yourself ("switch"). You move on to a new and interesting technology. Some call them "Bait and Switch Developers", but in the industry, they're usually just called "Enterprise Architects."