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Handover

Meaning in project management, with examples

/ˈhændoʊvər/nounCommon term

In project management, handover means: The formal transfer of a finished product, a system or a piece of work, along with the knowledge and documents needed, from the project team to the people who will use or support it.

In Turkish: devir, devir teslim, teslim

How it is used

Common near the end of projects, in construction and in IT operations. There is a handover meeting, a handover document and a handover date. The verb is hand over (two words): hand over the building, hand over to support.

Example sentences

  1. The handover to the operations team is planned for the end of the month.

  2. Please prepare a handover document before you go on leave.

Common collocations

  • handover meeting
  • handover document
  • smooth handover
  • handover date
  • project closureThe final phase of a project, when the work is formally completed: deliverables are accepted, contracts are closed, the team is released and documents and lessons are archived.
  • sign-offFormal approval from an authorised person that a deliverable, phase or document is complete and acceptable, so the project can move on.
  • go-liveThe moment when a new system, website or process starts to be used for real work by real users, after development and testing are complete.
  • lessons learnedThe useful knowledge a team gains from a project, both from what went well and from what went wrong, recorded so future projects can benefit.

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