Knowledge Transfer: The “Truck Factor”

The Truck Factor is the number of team members that have to get hit by a truck for your project to fail. For most FTC teams, the Truck Factor is 1. (Usually the lead programmer).

The Wiki

Stop using Google Drive for everything. Use Notion or Obsidian.

• Page 1: “How to turn on the robot.”
• Page 2: “How to image the Control Hub.”
• Page 3: “Our Git workflow.”

The “Look Back”

After every season, write a “Post-Mortem”.

• “What went wrong?” (Our chain snapped because we didn’t use tensioners).
• “How do we fix it next year?” (Mandatory tensioners on all chain runs).

Conclusion

Documentation is boring. But losing connection in the World Finals because nobody knew how to crimp a wire is worse.