From a company’s perspective, sharing ownership increases the bus factor to more than one. The quirky term refers to the number of key people who can be incapacitated (for example, by getting hit by a bus) before the rest of the team is no longer able to keep the project going. A bus factor of one means that if any member of the team gets sick, goes on vacation, or leaves the company, the rest of the team suffers.
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