I don't think the analogy holds in the same way. To me, the bus factor represents how many people you can lose for an extended period of time before there are no subject matter experts left for a particular topic. If you've got 8 people on the team, but only 2 of them know how to do a particular thing, the bus factor is 2.
It's not about having enough people to do the work even if someone quits, it's about having enough people that know how to do something that we aren't losing chunks of knowledge if someone quits (or dies, or gets fired, or gets sick, or etc).
It doesn't make sense to me to treat people as part of a conduit bus that are interchangeable as long as there are enough people.
It's not about having enough people to do the work even if someone quits, it's about having enough people that know how to do something that we aren't losing chunks of knowledge if someone quits (or dies, or gets fired, or gets sick, or etc).
It doesn't make sense to me to treat people as part of a conduit bus that are interchangeable as long as there are enough people.