De tram-5-factor is het aantal betrokken mensen zou moeten komen te overlijden bij een software-project, voordat dit project door kennisgebrek ten dode is opgeschreven. Hoe hoger de factor, hoe groter de kans op voortzetting.
Dit is een vertaling van ‘Bus Factor‘:
In software development, a project’s bus factor is the number of developers it would need to lose to destroy its institutional memory and halt its progress. It is also known as truck factor,[1] or bus/truck number or lorry factor and is a measurement of the concentration of information in individual team members. A high bus factor means that many individuals know enough to carry on and the project could still succeed even in very adverse events.
‘Bus factor’ op Wikipedia
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