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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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error budget

/ˈer.ər ˈbʌdʒ.ɪt/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A budget you only discover you had when someone explains it was already spent.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The maximum tolerable amount of quality failure allowed within a period before remediation must take priority over new work.

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See also

data downtimeThe hours the data was wrong, billed entirely to whoever used it, not whoever produced it.
quality slaA promise about data with a number, a period, and no clause describing what happens when it breaks.
quality sloThe target you report against when you would rather not name the agreement you report to.