The concept was first presented as a corollary of his broader "Parkinson's law" spoof of management. He dramatizes this "law of triviality" with the example of a committee's deliberations on an atomic reactor, contrasting it to deliberations on a bicycle shed.
This concept is a humorous take on Parkinson's Law, highlighting how seemingly important tasks can be trivialized by committees or groups. He uses the contrasting examples of an atomic reactor and a bicycle shed to illustrate this point.