>..so that the lawyers can demonstrate being useful without messing with the actual matter of the contract
There's actually a programming version of this referenced on an old StackOverflow question - a "Duck", i.e. a feature submitted so management will take issue with it and not something else more important.
There's actually a programming version of this referenced on an old StackOverflow question - a "Duck", i.e. a feature submitted so management will take issue with it and not something else more important.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/new-programming-jar... - see entry #5