Too Many Cooks

Definitions

1. A situation where too many people are trying to influence or change the same thing, making progress worse instead of better. In engineering slang, too many cooks is common during visible incidents or cross-functional launches.

   In plain English: Too many people involved in one task, making it harder rather than easier.

   Example: "The incident bridge had too many cooks, with half the participants proposing fixes and nobody owning the next concrete step."

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