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A comment on Ask HN: What is the bus factor at your company?.

Re:Ask HN: What is the bus factor at your company? by nicky0 on Friday October 14, 2016 @12:28PM (#12709162)
The what now?
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Re:Ask HN: What is the bus factor at your company? by knz on Friday October 14, 2016 @01:53PM (#12709858)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

"The bus factor is a measurement of the risk resulting from information and capabilities not being shared among team members. It is also known as the lottery factor, truck factor, bus/truck number or lorry factor".

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Re:Ask HN: What is the bus factor at your company? by wargame on Friday October 14, 2016 @12:29PM (#12709169)
The amount of people a bus would have to take out before a project/company etc can no longer get work done.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the bus factor at your company? by CodeWriter23 on Friday October 14, 2016 @02:07PM (#12709971)
Right? We called it the Mack Truck Factor back in the day.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the bus factor at your company? by steverb on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:33PM (#12710498)
We call it the lottery factor to try and put a more positive spin on it.
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