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Posted on June 22nd, 2005 in Methodology, Agile by siddharta || No Comment
One of the more informal metrics (if you can call it that) is the “Truck Factor” of the team. The Truck Factor measures the amount of spread of knowledge within a team.
Formally, the truck factor is the number of people that need to be hit by a truck before the project is in serious trouble. Of course, they don’t actually need to be hit by a truck, they could leave the company, fall ill, or take a vacation.