{"id":2202,"date":"2022-12-10T12:05:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T18:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2023-01-29T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T19:22:59","slug":"bus-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/10\/bus-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus factor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Observation: management is obsessed with assessing all kinds of risk and their mitigations. This includes technical risk, financial risk, schedule risk, market risk, security risk, and others. This typically does not include bus factor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the biggest risks is the concentration of knowledge and expertise in too few individuals. This is known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bus_factor\" title=\"\">bus factor<\/a>. 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