What category does Bus Factor belong to?

Bus Factor belongs to the "Concepts" category in personal knowledge management and productivity.

What are the key topics related to Bus Factor?

Key topics related to Bus Factor include: risk-management, teams, knowledge-management.

What are alternative names for Bus Factor?

Bus Factor is also known as: Truck factor, Knowledge concentration risk.

Bus Factor

The number of team members who would need to be unavailable before a project stalls.

Also known as: Truck factor, Knowledge concentration risk

Category: Concepts

Tags: risk-management, teams, knowledge-management

Explanation

Bus Factor measures knowledge concentration risk: how many people would need to be 'hit by a bus' before a project couldn't continue? A bus factor of 1 means a single person leaving would halt progress - a critical vulnerability. Increasing bus factor requires documentation, knowledge sharing, and cross-training. For personal knowledge work, consider your own bus factor: Is your knowledge accessible to future you or collaborators? Good PKM practices increase your personal bus factor by externalizing knowledge.

Related Concepts

Single Source of Truth (SSOT)
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