jayceekay

I'm trying to remember what a specific term is called that I've seen in blog posts around here. Probably not specific to SWE, but it's when two options are, for all intents and purposes, equal, but there is a "soft" motivation/influence factor on behavior of others.

I'm not sure if my example is any good because I'm not even sure if I'm thinking of the right idea. But for example, as a team we have the option of adding code into a codebase that we plan on freezing and phasing out, vs. spinning up its replacement now. Spinning up a new codebase, while it has an upfront cost, will nudge people to write more modern code, test more (assuming the scaffolding is put in place), etc. Sorry that this is super vague.