Bus Factor (term)
Essays and updates on product, engineering, and AI by Chase Adams.
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Bus Factor is a term that I learned in the tech industry.
Bus Factor means "the risk of a system being irrecoverable or unknowable due an individual 'getting hit by a bus'.
It's primarily used as a way to determine if enough information has been shared about a system that the person who is primarily responsible is unavailable.
My peer Duncan Smith recommended a better, more human centric alternative: Beach Factor (term).
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