How to reveal and calculate the bus factor on a project
These days many project leads talk about the bus factor, the truck factor, or the brick factor, which is the number of developers, engineers on a project that can get hit by a bus/truck/brick, causing the project to stop. To put it even more simple it is a measure of the concentration of information about a system, a code a project. The most critical bus factor is 1. The term, of course, is not new; it appeared in business management back in 1998....