The handover gap

A system is not delivered when it goes live. It is delivered when the team running it can keep it alive without you.

Most procurement treats training as a line item at the end of a project. By then the budget is spent and the people who will actually operate the system have never seen it.

What works instead

  • Bring operators into acceptance testing, not just sign-off
  • Write the runbook while you build, not afterwards
  • Leave a named person who has fixed something themselves