5whys.com is a site I've been enjoying recently and anyone interested in team leadership should check it out. I've just been reading one of Roy's posts about something called 'Bus factor'.
Bus factor: An irreverent measurement of concentration of information in a single person, or very few people. The bus factor is the total number of key developers who would need to be incapacitated, as by getting hit by a bus, to send the project into such disarray that it would not be able to proceed.
My team's daily stand ups, pair programming and the willingness for team members to share their knowledge means we certainly have a bus factor > 1. So, what's your teams bus factor?
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