Source of Pain
Noun Phrase · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
The component, process, or habit that keeps generating repeated frustration and cost. In engineering slang, identifying the source of pain is often how teams decide what to simplify next.
In plain English: The thing that keeps causing repeated frustration or trouble.
Example: "The team finally admitted the approval workflow was the real source of pain, not the engineers supposedly asking for too many deploys."