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Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration
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Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

by Chad Cooper
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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The bus factor

Ever had someone tell you something in case they get hit by a bus? They want you to have some knowledge that they possess in case they are no longer around. The bus factor revolves around this principle and is a measure of the risk resulting from work that is undocumented, not shared, encrypted, obfuscated, or just plain incomprehensible to others. Let's say you have an enterprise GIS team of five people. Of those five people, two know the credentials and have access to the production servers. If those two people win the Powerball Lottery and disappear, no one will be able to access production to fix it when it breaks, so your team's bus factor is 2. Ultimately, the higher the bus factor, the better. With your five-person team, ...

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