The Bike Shed Effect versus Sweating the Small Stuff

1. Versus Sweating the Small Stuff

2. C.
Northcote Parkinson
Humorous/satirical economist article 1955
http://www.economist.com/node/1411612
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Book – Parkinson’s Law 1958
Parkinson’s Law of Triviality

3. Time

4. “the probability of
meandering goes up as the
technical difficulty of the
topic goes down”

5. Famous
email posted to FreeBSD mailing
list
www.bikeshed.com

6. “to ignore complex systems
in order to concentrate on
something easilyunderstood, in no small
part for personal glory”

9. Can we get the icon in corn
flower blue?

12. Community
Building
Open
Communication
Leveller

13. “When a discussion goes into
bikeshed mode it means that
we know that ultimately it's not
so very important in the grand
scheme of things, but it opens
up participation, we can talk in
a relaxed way, and maybe it's
an interesting topic.”
https://drupal.org/node/1493418

14. Rory Sutherland

17. “Our own sense of selfaggrandisement feels
that big important
problems need to have
big, important expensive
solutions”

18. “…a class of people who
have immense amounts
of power, but no money
at all”

19. Stuff that costs a lot
of money
Consultancy
Strategy
Stuff that has
a big effect
Trivia
Detail