Decision Glossary
Browse 4 decision terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
4 Decision Terms
- Bike Shed
- A trivial topic that receives disproportionate discussion because everyone can have an opinion on it, while complex important decisions get rubber-stamped....
- Golden Hammer
- An anti-pattern where a familiar tool or technique is applied to every problem regardless of fit — 'when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a...
- NIH Syndrome
- Not Invented Here syndrome — the tendency to reject or rewrite external solutions in favor of building custom ones, even when mature alternatives exist. Driven...
- Trade-off
- A deliberate engineering decision where improving one quality (speed, simplicity, safety) comes at the expense of another. The essence of software architecture...
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