Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A project team holds a formal hand-off meeting from execution to closeout, with checklist sign-off by the PI and research-administrator.
- Is an instance
A postdoc leaving the project documents her data, code, and ongoing experiments in a hand-off pack for her replacement.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
Routine inter-team email exchanges without structured transfer are not formal hand-offs.
- Not an instance
A single-team transition with no role change is not a hand-off.
Editorial commentary
Hand-offs occur at multiple points: proposal team to award-negotiation team, award-negotiation team to execution team, execution team to closeout team, original team to archive team, and at personnel transitions (e.g., outgoing postdoc to incoming postdoc). Quality hand-off practice includes written briefing documents, joint meetings, version-controlled project records, and clear ownership transfer. Poor hand-offs are a leading cause of lost institutional memory and downstream compliance issues.
References
- PMBOK Guide transition management; UKRI good-practice project management.
Also known as
Handover (between phases) · Transition (project phase) · Phase handover
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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