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Operational debt: the accumulated cost of deferred

Operational debt: the accumulated cost of deferred maintenance on personal systems that compounds over time, eventually causing failures proportional to the duration of neglect

Why This Is a Definition

Genus: accumulated deferred-maintenance cost. Differentia: compounds over time, causes proportional failures.

Source Lessons

L-0987

Operational debt

Deferred maintenance on your systems accumulates and eventually causes failures.

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