When someone oversimplifies a task in order to get your buy-in. This is something done typically by sales people in order to clinch a sale, or by software
management in order to convince
developers to assign small estimates to large and
complicated tasks
That mgmt slide show was a total snake-oil simplification! When you
think about it for a few minutes its clear that providing the
functionality described will be a lot more
complicated than just plugging component A into server B. Who agreed to the effort estimates on this anyway!?!? We're screwed man, we'll never make this date!