[Milan-pm] Truck Number

[marcos rebelo]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Stefano Rodighiero
<stefano.rodighiero at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:27 PM, marcos rebelo <oleber at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> definition:
>> The Truck Number is the size of the smallest set of people in a
>> project such that, if one of them got hit by a truck, the project
>> would be in trouble.
>
> I thought it was called the "Bus Factor" :)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
>
> s.
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You are +- correct, but you chose the wrong definition ;)

You can use the second definition to define the bus Factor.

"The Truck Number is the size of the smallest set of people in a
project such that, if all of them got hit by a truck, the project
would be in trouble."

Best Regards
Marcos Rebelo

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