gold plating

基本解释

Ensure that developers aren't "gold plating" (adding features beyond the requirements).
確保開發人員不會“鍍金”（增加超出需求的特性）。
All too often, projects undergo the “gold plating” process long after deadlines and success conditions are determined.
很多時候，項目經歷了“鍍金”的過程，期限已經過期很久，成功條件得以明確。
Several of the other 32 classic mistakes identified are: switching development tools in the middle of a project, developer gold plating, and friction between developers and customers.
其它的32種典型錯誤還包括了項目中途更換開發工具，開發者鍍金去了，程序員與客戶的摩擦等等。

Just to give a few examples from my own direct business knowledge: gold plating on computer chips and connectors used to be about 200 nanometres.
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And that wasn't because the contractors were gouging or the services were gold-plating.
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Like solder perhaps, or simple gold bars for plating: these are simply not things that are being manufactured in the sense the law requires by those electronics companies.
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