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bus factors

bus factors is the plural of bus factor.

Meaning of bus factor

Noun

bus factor (plural bus factors)

  1. 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

Questions about bus factors

What is bus factors the plural of?
Bus factors is the plural of bus factor.

Words near bus factors in the dictionary

  1. bus driver
  2. bus drivers
  3. bus duct
  4. bus ducts
  5. bus factor
  6. bus factors
  7. bus fare
  8. bus fares
  9. bus girl
  10. bus girls
  11. bus kanaka

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