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To be fair, I'm pretty sure the term "bus factor" (also known as "lottery factor" for the less morbid version) was invented by developers. I use that term all t
by feoren 5y ago
To be fair, I'm pretty sure the term "bus factor" (also known as "lottery factor" for the less morbid version) was invented by developers. I use that term all the time, and think a lot about what would happen if I were "hit by a bus". Maybe grim humor is not your style, but I'd recommend you look past that because that complaint is detracting from your otherwise valid points here.
- lanstin 5y agoFor a senior, a great way to reduce the bus factor is to periodically stop all work in things other people can do. (Catch up on your reading, or write that cool code transformer you can’t stop thinking about or whatever). Hep when asked but very passively “why don’t you share your screen and we can try to debug it” instead of “try again, it should work now.” It might go really well or might show what areas you need to grow the team capabilities, but either way you get to know how great the code transformer idea really was.