gold plating

基本解释

Ensure that developers aren't "gold plating" (adding features beyond the requirements).
确保开发人员不会“镀金”（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.
很多时候，项目经历了“镀金”的过程，期限已经过期很久，成功条件得以明确。
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种典型错误还包括了项目中途更换开发工具，开发者镀金去了，程序员与客户的摩擦等等。

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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