Bus factor

Bus factor

In software development, a software project's bus factor is an irreverent measurement of concentration of information in a single person, or very few people. The bus factor is the total number of key developers who would if incapacitated, as by getting hit by a bus, send the project into such disarray that it would not be able to proceed. [ cite web | url = http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/linus-torvalds-bus-factor/ | title = The Linus Torvalds Bus Factor ]

Getting hit by a bus could take many different forms. This could be a person taking a new job, having a baby, changing their lifestyle or life status, the impact would have the same effect.

CommentatorsWho|date=July 2008 have noted that the Linux kernel's bus factor may be as low as one; the project's founder and chief architect, Linus Torvalds. Fact|date=May 2008

See also

* Cross-training

References

External links

* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645 Poisonous People] , a talk that includes (among other topics) discussion of bus factor and how to increase it


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