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The terms bicycle-shed effect, bike-shed effect, and bike-shedding were coined based on Parkinson's example; it was popularized in the Berkeley Software Distribution community by the Danish software developer Poul-Henning Kamp in 1999 [3] and, due to that, has since become popular within the field of software development generally.
In his 1957 book Parkinson's Law, or the Pursuit of Progress, C. Northcote Parkinson describes a committee that met to discuss the construction of a new nuclear power plant. The agenda included three items: approving the plans for the plant, discussing a new bicycle shed for employees, and the refreshment expenses of the Welfare Committee.
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FOSDEM 2014: "NSA operation ORCHESTRA Annual Status Report" by Kamp. A post by Kamp on the FreeBSD mailing lists [9] [10] is responsible for the popularization of the term bike shed discussion, and the derived term bikeshedding, to describe Parkinson's law of triviality in open source projects - when the amount of discussion that a subject receives is inversely proportional to its importance.
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Cyril Northcote Parkinson (30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993) was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson's Law (1957), in which Parkinson advanced the eponymous law stating that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion", [1] an insight which led him to be regarded as an important scholar in public ...
Neurological conditions, including Parkinson's disease, stroke, multiple sclerosis or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), can interfere with the nerves and muscles that control swallowing.
This is a nice bicycle shed, but too bad it's been proposed to be repainted without being established that it needs to be repainted. Imagine you have spent fifteen minutes discussing what color to paint the bikeshed, with three other people. One person says "Wait, does the bikeshed even need painting?" Another person says "No, we didn't ...