bus factor
English
editEtymology
editFrom the phrase “get hit by a bus” as an informal way to describe a person suddenly becoming unavailable.
Noun
editbus factor (plural bus factors)
- (business, originally software engineering) A measurement of the risk of losing team members, in terms of information and abilities no longer available to the team.
- 2012, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman, Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 7:
- 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?
Further reading
edit- bus factor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia