Bulldozer00's Blog

Truckin’ got my chips cashed in. Keep truckin’, like the do-dah man. – Grateful Dead

One of the funny concepts that someone concocted a while back is called the “truck number“. The truck number is the number of critical people on a project that would need to get hit by a truck (and die) before the project is guaranteed to get completely hosed.

A couple of ways to increase your truck number is to minimize specialization of roles and to effect job rotations in areas of expertise that aren’t orthogonal from each other. However, if you think of, and treat all of, the people on your project as quickly replaceable cogs, then you erroneously and naively assume that the truck number is equal to the number of people on your project. Thus, the bigger the project, the better. Whoo Hoo!

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