busfactor
Bus factor, also known as the truck factor, is a project risk metric that estimates the minimum number of team members who must be removed from a project (for example due to illness or departure) before the project’s progress stalls or fails. It serves as a heuristic for the resilience of a project to the loss of key personnel.
The concept originates in software engineering and startup culture and characterizes the concentration of critical knowledge
Measurement of the bus factor is not an exact calculation; it is a rough assessment. It involves
Mitigation strategies to increase the bus factor include thorough documentation, shared ownership of code and processes,
Critics note that the bus factor is a simplistic measure that can mislead if taken too literally.