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Rule #62

Do you know how to handover a project?

v10.0 Posted at 20/07/2011 5:19 PM by system

A common source of pain, is picking up a project without a decent/complete handover. To have a successful project you must navigate over the problem of changing resources/people leaving etc.

Always ensure that you complete the following checklist and always send the email confirming the handover is complete.

Here are the 8 steps you should follow for a good handover.

Confirm current tasks
Confirm future tasks
Confirm the primary contacts
Do a code review
Review the client portal
Confirm location of info and procedures (hopefully these are on a wiki or SharePoint document library)
- Source control
- Database
- Documents
- How to Build and Package
- Testing Steps and users and passwords to access the test and staging servers
- Deployment Steps
- Servers and Passwords
- Failure & Recovery Steps
Test that the users, passwords, urls and server details provided in the handover are correct by logging in with each
Complete the Handover by sending an email with: As per our meeting the handover has been completed to my satisfaction

From: Andy
To: Gracia
Subject: SSW - Northwind handover

Done

Confirm outstanding tasks
Nothing.
Confirm planned tasks
Get release 43 out.
Confirm location
- Source control
  Nothing
- Data storage
  file://server/DataSSW/SSWProducts/Northwind
- Deployment
  Make a build by using WISE
  Test: seadragon
  Production: squirrel
- Failure & Recovery
  Do not work on the Master folder, work on local machine. If it has some issue, grab the file from master folder.
  Always backup master folder’s file before uploading the changes to the master folder
Update the Employee Responsibilities in SSW intranet
TODO

Figure Bad Example - This handover is incomplete and light on details

From: Andy
To: Gracia
Subject: SSW - Northwind Handover

DONE - As per our meeting the handover has been completed to my satisfaction

Confirm outstanding tasks
Nothing.
Confirm planned tasks
Next release is Release 43.
The aim of this release is to improve the reporting available from the management module with chart reports
Query = tfs\Northwind\Work Items\Team Queries\All Work Items - R43 - Management Module Reporting

Backlog is in TFS.
Query = tfs\Northwind\Work Items\Team Queries\All Work Items - Backlog
Confirm location
- Source control
  file://tfs.ssw.com.au/tfs/Northwind
- Data storage
  file://server/DataSSW/SSWProducts/Norwind
- Deployment
  - Make a build by using WISE
  - Test db to connect to:
    server: seadragon
    database: SSWNorthwind_test
  - Production db to connect to:
    server: squirrel
    database: SSWNorthwind
- Failure & Recovery
  Do not work on the Master folder, work on local machine. If it has some issue, grab the file from master folder.
  Always backup master folder’s file before uploading the changes to the master folder.
  If a problem occurs restore the backup of the master folder and restart
Update the Employee Responsibilities in SSW intranet
DONE
Complete Handover