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Bus factor

Programming På svenska → Updated: 2026-05-23

The number of people who need to be hit by a bus before the project stops.

Bus factor = 1 is high risk (one hero knows everything). Bus factor = 5 is healthy. Raise it via: documentation, code review, pair programming, on-call rotation. Also "lottery factor" or "truck factor" — same idea, less morbid.

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