Bus-sensitive Knowledge

From xoa

If you're the only person that knows something critical to your company, this otherwise friendly implement of child transportation could become your worst enemy.

Bus-sensitive Knowledge is information that is immediately erased when the person who is carrying said knowledge is erased by a school bus (dammit, there goes the database schema!). In more serious terms, if something tragic happens to a key player in your organization, you don't want the goals and operations of the organization to be compromised. Ideally, a wiki is a great tool to help prevent this from happening - they make it easy to store information rapidly so that others can pick up where you left off (in the event of your untimely demise).

Meet Joe Black provides us with a stunning visual of what this phenomenon might look like in the real world.

Please remember that sometimes there is more knowledge in front of the bus than inside the bus.