Ownership handoff
A system nobody internally can operate is a liability with good demos. Handoff is finished when a named owner can run, debug, and stop it.
What is handing over an AI system your team can operate?
A system nobody internally can operate is a liability with good demos. Handoff is finished when a named owner can run, debug, and stop it.
Implementation
- Write runbooks for the five failures most likely in the first ninety days.
- Hand over dashboards for cost, error rate, and approval latency.
- Name a single accountable owner and a deputy.
- Walk the owner through one live incident drill before sign-off.
- Document how to turn the system off and what happens to work in flight.
Failure modes
- Handoff as a documentation dump with no drill.
- No named owner, so the system is everyone's and nobody's.
How it is verified
- The owner completes an incident drill unaided.
- The decommission path is tested, not assumed.
Questions this pattern answers
What is handing over an AI system your team can operate?
A system nobody internally can operate is a liability with good demos. Handoff is finished when a named owner can run, debug, and stop it.
How do you implement ownership handoff?
Write runbooks for the five failures most likely in the first ninety days. Hand over dashboards for cost, error rate, and approval latency. Name a single accountable owner and a deputy. Walk the owner through one live incident drill before sign-off. Document how to turn the system off and what happens to work in flight.
How is ownership handoff verified?
The owner completes an incident drill unaided. The decommission path is tested, not assumed.
What usually goes wrong with ownership handoff?
Handoff as a documentation dump with no drill. No named owner, so the system is everyone's and nobody's.
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