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Dumb question: Can you clarify what ZBB'd means in this context? I've never seen it before. There's a wiki page [0] with various meanings for the abbreviation,

• epsilon_greedy 7y ago
  Zero-based budgeting. It effectively means that a project is no longer getting funded or staffed and is therefore dead.
  • nieve 7y ago
    I have to wonder how many bitter Pyrrhic victory jokes get made by victims of poor implementation based on the creator's last name - Pyrrh. I've seen too many companies destroyed by superficially attractive budgeting schemes, even with how much tech has started to acknowledge perverse incentives they seem to get overlooked. The worst I had direct experience with was a company where they moved to all income being credited to marketing & bizdev and all other parts of the company being treated as losses to be minimized. We were both advertising supported (and thus needed content to sell anything) and had professional products that required analysts, but they when the market started looking rougher they kept the sales & ad people and concentrated layoffs on people who produced things or ran the infrastructure. Ultra-simplified bookkeeping interpreted through the lens of too much coke nearly destroyed them. The dotcom bubble was a very strange time.