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bus test

bus test noun: a simulation exercise, usually for the purpose of business planning, in which people imagine what could happen if a key employee suddenly became unavailable.

Noun

bus test (plural bus tests)

  1. A simulation exercise, usually for the purpose of business planning, in which people imagine what could happen if a key employee suddenly became unavailable.
    • One way to check if current documentation practices are effectively preserving knowledge is to ask whether your key employees could pass the "bus test." In other words, if your star scientist, chief engineer, or policy analyst was hit by a bus on the way to work tomorrow would their documentation...2004, Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce, →ISBN

Forms of bus test

pluralbus tests

Questions about bus test

What does bus test mean?
Bus test means a simulation exercise, usually for the purpose of business planning, in which people imagine what could happen if a key employee suddenly became unavailable.
What part of speech is bus test?
Bus test is a noun.
What is the plural of bus test?
The plural of bus test is bus tests.

Words near bus test in the dictionary

  1. bus stations
  2. bus stop
  3. bus stop chicane
  4. bus stop chicanes
  5. bus stops
  6. bus test
  7. bus topologies
  8. bus topology
  9. bus trap
  10. bus traps
  11. bus war

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