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How to Protect Software Development Projects from the Bus Factor Problem

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A software house lays out the exact practices that let any competent engineer take over a codebase: clean structure, standard patterns, and handoff documentation. This is the how-to behind the advice to have a second developer able to read the code before you depend fully on the first. Concrete and implementable even if you are not writing the code yourself.

  • Standard patterns and a documented setup make a codebase transferable
  • Handoff docs should let a new engineer run and understand the app cold
  • Plan the transition path before the current developer is your only option
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  1. Is it a mistake to hire one developer to build my whole product alone?

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