Beyond the Bus Factor: Managing Tribal Knowledge

This article argues that the real fragility in engineering teams isn’t the bus factor, it's the loss of decision context. Most systems depend on knowledge locked in a few heads, and when that disappears, teams pay for it in outages, rewrites, and slow recovery. The post proposes a simple operating model: capturing intent through decision logs, enforcing a technical "constitution" and using automation to reduce drift, so teams can scale without accumulating invisible risk.

I would love to hear from the community how are you handling tribal knowledge within your organisation

Post link: https://brihatijain.com/blog/beyond_the_bus_factor