Define: "Go pear-shaped" in Business
Catastrophic fiscal burn
"Keep your TFTP server running locally. When things go pear-shaped, your last known good config is the only thing keeping you employed."
A situation that has gone wrong or deteriorated from the original plan.
What does "Go pear-shaped" actually mean?
"The exact moment during a weekend maintenance window when you realize the backup configuration didn't save and you have to rebuild the routing tables from memory."
"We need contingency plans in place in case the Q4 launch goes pear-shaped."
"The seamlessSeamlessThe transition will be a chaotic nightmare, but we'll hide the errors from the client. Palo Alto firewall migration went completely pear-shaped at 3 AM when we realized nobody mapped the legacy NAT rules."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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