In a recent post about a conference (which includes some interesting comparisons between the .Net and Ruby communities), Jeremy Miller covers some quotes from the weekend, including this one
“Low Truck Number” — A statistic measuring the healthy duplication of knowledge and understanding within a project team. If your Truck Number == 1, a single person getting hit by a bus, or offered more money across the street, effectively ends your project. I’ve been the “what if you were hit by bus” guy in the past. It wasn’t fun, and I learned to hate that phrase.
I used to be in a shop with maybe a dozen developers, but intense silos and a large number of applications led to a pretty low truck number. In my new job, I am the tech department. At least now I have a name for my pain.
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