I knew the general concept of this word but it was thrown around today so I decided to research it. Parkinson’s Law of Triviality (also known as the bicycle shed example, and by the expression colour of the bikeshed) is C. Northcote Parkinson’s 1957 argument that organisations give disproportionate weight to trivial issues. source Made famous in software development by Poul-Henning Kamp (FreeBSD dev) *“The really, really short answer is that you should not.