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Hoarding critical knowledge is a way to stay employed (qatalog.com)
13 points by qrt 2106 days ago
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I remember working in a dev team where only one person knew where all the keys for all services were stored

If he was hit by a bus, we were f*ed

I had a team where we always talked about our bus factor - how many of us it would take to be hit by a bus to royally screw the team. We also got nervous when too many of us shared an elevator together, hah.

In all seriousness though, knowledge silo'ing can be a nasty problem