The measure of a handover is whether another team can pick the project up without calling us. Everything below exists to make that true - and we would want the same if we were inheriting it.
The code, and the reasons
- The repository, with a readable history
- A README that gets a new machine running
- Notes on the decisions that are not obvious from the code
The infrastructure, described
Environments, deployment steps, the secrets inventory (not the secrets), DNS, and what each cloud resource is for. Written down, not held in someone's head.
Store and account access
The listings, the signing keys, the analytics and crash reporting - transferred to accounts you own. We have seen too many products stranded behind an agency's Apple account.
A walkthrough with the people who built it
Recorded, so the person who joins in six months can watch it too. Documentation ages; a recording of the reasoning ages better.
