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Bus Factor Check
A quick map of key-person risk: which critical knowledge really lives in one person, and where the team would stop first.
Free key-person dependency check
What breaks if one person is unavailable tomorrow?
Add critical knowledge areas and enter how many people can independently change, recover, or support each one. The tool uses the minimum coverage as a simple bus factor proxy.
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Critical knowledge areaIndependent owners
How to use it
Do not count people. Find fragile knowledge.
Bus factor is useful less as a team KPI and more as a way to find areas where one vacation, resignation, or overloaded person becomes an operational risk.
The first practical move is usually simple: give a second person enough ownership to complete the full loop independently — change, release, diagnose, and recover the critical component.