A Novel Approach for Estimating Truck Factors.¶
Avelino, G., Passos, L., Hora, A., & Valente, M. T. (2016). A Novel Approach for Estimating Truck Factors. Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 1-10.
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Primes¶
- Center Of Gravity
- Organisational change: the unspoken cultural keystone — a founder, the one engineer who owns the deploy pipeline, an unwritten norm — whose departure redirects the whole organisation.
This sourceDefines and measures the truck/bus factor — the minimal number of key developers whose departure incapacitates a project — quantifying key-person dependence and concentrated tacit knowledge (65% of 133 popular projects have a truck factor ≤ 2).
- Organisational change: the unspoken cultural keystone — a founder, the one engineer who owns the deploy pipeline, an unwritten norm — whose departure redirects the whole organisation.
Mechanisms¶
- Role-Substitution Rotation
- It directly attacks a low bus factor: the small number of people whose sudden absence would stall a critical function.
This sourceDefines truck factor as the small number of key developers whose departure would leave a project in serious trouble.
- It directly attacks a low bus factor: the small number of people whose sudden absence would stall a critical function.
- Specialist Queue
- Its failure mode is specialist scarcity turned bottleneck: the lane is real but under-capacitied, so it becomes the slowest, most fragile path in the system, and if all competence sits with one or two people
This sourceDefines truck factor as concentrated knowledge in very few developers that threatens project continuity if they leave.
- Its failure mode is specialist scarcity turned bottleneck: the lane is real but under-capacitied, so it becomes the slowest, most fragile path in the system, and if all competence sits with one or two people
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