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What is your inverse bus factor?
Yesterday I talked about the bus factor. The lesser known inverse bus factor is often just as important:
How many team members need to be hit by a bus* before your project can become productive?
*or otherwise disappear from the team.
The inverse bus factor points to the problem of team members who provide negative business value.
Of course, most of us provide negative business value during onboarding, so we aren’t concerned with that.
In my experience, the inverse bus factor raises above zero in one of two scenarios:
Ironically, this person is also often the rock star, and seen as indispensible. This may make them both the one person the team cannot afford to lose, and simultaneously the one person the team most needs to lose.
Is your team too large to be productive? I’d love to hear about it. Hit REPLY and let me know.
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