The Technical Insolvency Date
The exact quarter when maintenance costs mathematically consume 100% of engineering capacity.
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The Technical Insolvency Date (TID) is the theoretical point where a software organization's maintenance burden consumes 100% of its available engineering capacity.
The Mathematics of Stagnation
It is calculated as: Capacity - (Codebase_Size * Maintenance_Factor).
When this reaches zero, feature velocity stops. The organization is zombie-walking.
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