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Nothing wrong with bikeshedding, as long as everyone bikeshedding knows they are bikeshedding. It only becomes a problem when someone asserts that blue “is the one true color” to paint the shed and doesn’t recognize that a shed can be other colors.

At that point, you reach an impasse that the other team members must then bend to that person’s opinions or leave.



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