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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Service owner, bus factor?

Also known as: service owner · bus factor

Definition 21.4 The Desk and the Firm · Chapter 21 — Engineering Organisation Design

A service owner is the named team, with a named lead, accountable for a service’s correctness, changes, on-call and retirement. The bus factor of a service is the number of people who can operate and change it; the bus factor of an organisation is the smallest over its services: the number of departures that would leave some service with no one who understands it.

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