Bus factor.¶
(2026). Bus factor. Wikipedia.
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- Single Point of Failure
- Second, an organization in which one person holds undocumented knowledge of a legacy system — the "bus factor of one."
This sourceDefines the bus factor (truck factor) — the minimum number of team members whose sudden loss would stall a project — formalizing operational continuity capped at a single person holding undocumented knowledge ('bus factor of one').
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Wikipedia defines the bus factor via knowledge not shared among team members, cites undocumented work as the cause, and calls a bus factor of one a single point of failure.
“If all 5 people who know how to bake disappear, then the team cannot produce bread, so the team's bus factor is 5. A bus factor of one is a single point of failure”
- Second, an organization in which one person holds undocumented knowledge of a legacy system — the "bus factor of one."
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