bus factor en · NOUN
Etymology
From the phrase “get hit by a bus” as an informal way to describe a person suddenly becoming unavailable.
Meanings
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A measurement of the risk of losing team members, in terms of information and abilities no longer available to the team.
It's also important to strengthen what we call the bus factor of your project. Bus factor (noun): the number of people that need to get hit by a bus before your project is completely doomed. What's your team's bus factor?
2012, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman, Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 7:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bus factors | Number=Plur | lexicographic |