[seanwilson]

Ha, I'd be open to better names like this. I've seen someone talk to a client before about what a bus factor was when explaining why we were putting together a handover document and you could see the client visibly wince whenever "hit by a bus" was said. I usually go with "if one of us is on holiday".

[detaro]

On the other hand, the "bus" scenario makes it very clear that it's the worst case that's a) not planned, b) no, you can't just call them anyways, even if its really really important and c) not something you can wait out until they return.

[Viliam1234]

> I usually go with "if one of us is on holiday".

I would expect this to get responses like "you need to take your phone with you on your holidays" or "you should plan your holidays so that they don't happen at the time when the application is most needed".

In my experience, having the bus factor of one was not a problem for the company, it was a problem for me, because I needed to do a lot of negotiation about when to take my holidays. (After a few years I gave them the notice, and then it suddenly became a problem for the company.)

[asddubs]

ha, he must've had a pretty visual imagination