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by dustismo 4966 days ago
uhh, what is a bus factor?

> 5. Is your bus factor greater than n/2, where n is the number of engineers?

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LMGTFY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor :)

The bus factor is the total number of key developers who would need to be incapacitated (as by getting hit by a bus/truck) to send the project into such disarray that it would not be able to proceed; the project would retain information (such as source code) with which no remaining team member is familiar.

uhh, what is LMGTFY? (I actually just googled that, lol)
"Let Me Google That For You"
The number of your people a bus would have to squish to screw your company.
If an engineer steps infront of a bus does your company cease to exist?