Infrastructure Technical Debt Website

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Alexander Muir

4/29/20261 min read

We have launched a dedicated blog at https://blog.odysseus-imc.com/ and our first feature article tackles one of the most consequential — and consistently underestimated — issues in infrastructure management: technical debt. Not software debt, but the real, compounding financial liability that accumulates every time a council, utility, or authority defers the maintenance and renewal its assets actually need. Australia's infrastructure maintenance gap is estimated at $890 billion, and it is growing.

The article covers the full picture: what infrastructure technical debt is and why it keeps accumulating, how to measure it using the Technical and Temporal Debt Index (TTDI), what regulators should be requiring of utilities and councils, the software tools that support rigorous analysis, and a practical five-phase plan of attack for organisations ready to confront their liability head-on. It also includes a video presentation and draws on the CMIM methodology and TTDI frameworks developed by Odysseus-imc over many years of practice.

At this time, Odysseus-imc is the only consultancy with the software capability to comprehensively measure, report on, and prescribe actions to reduce infrastructure technical debt. If your organisation is concerned about the gap between what you are spending on maintenance and what you should be spending — or needs to make that case to a board, council, or regulator — this article is the right place to start.