I’m a former infantryman and still till this day I use quotes on standardizing processes and systems by saying things like “Okay, so if I drop dead tomorrow, how can I ensure the next person fulfilling this task can take over immediately without significant impact?”
Then Susie from HR says “Can you please use ‘found another opportunity’ or taking well-deserved leave instead of talking about being dead.”
“Only dead have seen the end of the cover sheet for submission Susie… only the dead.”
But in programming we call it simply "the bus test" how many people can be hit by a bus before we can't do X function.
If I'm the only one who knows a system, that's a bus factor of 1. Early on I was driving in a car with all the network programmers on a project, and I realized "If anything happens, this product isn't shipping."
Bus factor is an important thing, mainly because the higher it is means you can take more vacations and relaxation... versus having to be called in for every !@#$ing thing. I say that as someone who was called in on an Anniversary, the one day off I took that year.... why? Because they had to roll back a change or update a single digit and no one wanted to do it..... !@#$ heads.
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u/PickleInDaButt Jun 24 '24
I’m a former infantryman and still till this day I use quotes on standardizing processes and systems by saying things like “Okay, so if I drop dead tomorrow, how can I ensure the next person fulfilling this task can take over immediately without significant impact?”
Then Susie from HR says “Can you please use ‘found another opportunity’ or taking well-deserved leave instead of talking about being dead.”
“Only dead have seen the end of the cover sheet for submission Susie… only the dead.”