Poul-Henning Kamp's 1999 FreeBSD post used the bike-shed metaphor for disproportionate discussion of a small software issue and explicitly connected it to Parkinson's atomic-plant example.

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"Poul-Henning Kamp’s 1999 FreeBSD post used the bike-shed metaphor for disproportionate discussion of a small software issue and explicitly connected it to Parkinson’s atomic-plant example."

Kamp described a minor sleep(1) proposal as an extreme bike-shed discussion and traced the metaphor to Parkinson's contrast between an atomic power plant and a bicycle shed.

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Source title A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass...

Source authors Poul-Henning Kamp

Source year 1999

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