Architecture & practice·Judgement and reasoning traps
the new technology was chosen before the requirements were written, by the person who wanted to learn it.
Resume-driven development
Also calledCV-driven development, resume driven design
Choosing technology for what it does for the chooser's career rather than for the problem. It is rarely conscious and almost never admitted, which is why it is best challenged obliquely: ask what the alternatives were and what specifically ruled them out. The organisational fix is the harder one — engineers need legitimate ways to learn new things, or they will find illegitimate ones and the company will operate them for a decade.