bus factor

noun

Etymology

From the phrase “get hit by a bus” as an informal way to describe a person suddenly becoming unavailable.

Definitions

  1. A measurement of the risk of losing team members, in terms of information and abilities…

    A measurement of the risk of losing team members, in terms of information and abilities no longer available to the team.

    • It's also important to strengthen what we call the bus factor of your project. Bus factor (noun): the number of people that need to get hit by a bus before your project is completely doomed. What's your team's bus factor?

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No curated loop yet for bus factor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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