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title: "Bus Factor"
description: "Explore the concept of Bus Factor and test the resilience and continuity of projects, organisations, archives, and communities."
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categories: [TSAP Documentation]
created: 2026-06-06
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**Bus Factor** is a concept used to assess how dependent a project, organisation, or community is on a small number of individuals. Traditionally, it asks how many key people could suddenly become unavailable before the project is unable to continue. In practice, the idea is less about individuals and more about continuity, documentation, knowledge sharing, and long-term sustainability.

This documentation and experimental tool present a series of scenarios and questions designed to encourage reflection on institutional memory, succession planning, documentation practices, and operational resilience. It can be used to explore how well a project might continue and remain useful over time if key contributors, systems, or resources become unavailable.

This page is currently in an experimental stage and may change as the concept and interface are further developed.