Define: "Give it a burl" in Business
Catastrophic fiscal burn
"Silently route the untested traffic exclusively through the account manager's local subnet so their connection drops first when the code inevitably panics."
An Australian idiom meaning to try something or give it a go.
What does "Give it a burl" actually mean?
"An account manager aggressively encouraging you to test untested code directly in the production environment."
"We aren't sure if the new software will improve efficiency but let's give it a burl."
"The sales engineer told me to just 'give it a burl' when I asked if the new routing policy would drop our peers."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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