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knowledge transfer
2 articles tagged knowledge-transfer.
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Your senior engineer just left. Your bus factor was measuring the wrong thing.
A senior leaves and the code stays readable. What walks out is the cross-repo dependency map they held in their head — the part your bus factor, measured from commits, never counted.
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Your senior engineer just gave notice. Most of what they knew was in the repos all along.
Tribal knowledge is two different things wearing one name. The half everyone panics about losing was declared in your Terraform, your Dockerfiles, and your CI config the whole time.