Ask HN: What is the bus factor at your company?

Re:Ask HN: What is the bus factor at your company? by mey on Friday October 14, 2016 @12:28PM (#12709163)

Disturbingly high for the size of the company. I can point to several locations where one person is pivotal to core business functions and causes issues when they go on vacation.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the bus factor at your company? by luiscarloscb on Friday October 14, 2016 @01:06PM (#12709478)

Wouldn't that be a disturbingly low bus factor?

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Re:Ask HN: What is the bus factor at your company? by mey on Friday October 14, 2016 @01:29PM (#12709664)

Apparently yes, wasn't sure the scale :)

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Re:Ask HN: What is the bus factor at your company? by GFischer on Friday October 14, 2016 @01:48PM (#12709835)

Same here, plenty of areas with a bus factor of one. Even worse, one of the critical persons is over 70 - incredibly sharp, healthy and keeps up to date, I hope to reach her age with those skills, but her age makes a health problem more likely.

That said, her irreplaceability is more due to stupid security setup (she's the only one that has all the necessary privileges), so I guess she could be replaced eventually after some hiccups (and at a big hit to productivity).

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