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Re:Using Technical Debt in Your Favor by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday March 22, 2018 @01:23PM (#16650695)
That's organisational debt, which is a prime cause of technical debt.

It reliably fascinates me that in spite of more than a century of history, management culture lacks both words and concepts for many common and predictable organisational failure modes.

Re:Using Technical Debt in Your Favor by 52-6F-62 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @02:03PM (#16651016)
It actually reminds me of regular corporate life in a confused company— and in turn, this: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Re:Using Technical Debt in Your Favor by dragonwriter on Thursday March 22, 2018 @01:32PM (#16650758)
> It reliably fascinates me that in spite of more than a century of history, management culture lacks both words and concepts for many common and predictable organisational failure modes.

Does it? The manager in GP, for instance, seems to be a textbook example of a thermocline of truth.