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title: "Discussion on \"Your senior engineer just left. Your bus factor was measuring the wrong thing.\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"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 — and your bus factor, measured from commits, never counted it."
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# [Your senior engineer just left. Your bus factor was measuring the wrong thing.](https://riftmap.hashnode.dev/your-senior-engineer-just-left-your-bus-factor-was-measuring-the-wrong-thing?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A senior leaves and the code stays readable. What walks out is the cross-repo dependency map — and your bus factor, measured from commits, never counted it.

Jun 17 · 14 min read · riftmap.hashnode.dev  
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-   [#bus-factor](https://hashnode.com/tag/bus-factor)
-   [#tribal-knowledge](https://hashnode.com/tag/tribal-knowledge)
-   [#platform-engineering](https://hashnode.com/tag/platform-engineering)
-   [#cross-repo-dependencies](https://hashnode.com/tag/cross-repo-dependencies)
-   [#key-person-risk](https://hashnode.com/tag/key-person-risk)
-   [#knowledge-transfer](https://hashnode.com/tag/knowledge-transfer)
-   [#dependency-graph](https://hashnode.com/tag/dependency-graph)

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[Daniel Westgaard](https://hashnode.com/@danielw)

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Developer with a passion for building and development - currently building Riftmap, https://riftmap.dev

Developer with a passion for building and development. Currently building Riftmap - https://riftmap.dev

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