Aug. 12, 2021
It is an accepted fact that all organisations inevitably acrue debt. These debts come in many forms; technology debt (eg insufficient test coverage) is well known, whereas bureacratic debt (eg more steps then required to achieve a task) is less well known but felt more starkly day to day.
From time to time, organisations take steps to reduce org debt by running broad programmes or establishing organisational mandates to achieve specific outcomes (often to much fanfare).