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I really don’t like the term "bus factor" because I lost someone in a bus accident.

On the other hand, millions of lives have literally been lost on various hills on various battlefields, yet no one seems to mind when someone says, "this is the hill I’m willing to die on." :)

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These days the "politically correct" phrasing is:

"Lottery winner"

Someone wins the lottery.

(I am old - I start with the poor bus driver scenario - but then try to inject the new phrasing into the conversation - as typically I am the only technical person on my team and they begin to rely on me for EVERYTHING)

i worked a software job that sometimes involved literally going to the busyard to debug on-board equipment. people at that job used the phrase attrition risk rather than bus factor because the latter was just a little too "real".

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