RiverBase Software Advisory
Engineer Handover Pairing
Keep the pipeline when the expert walks out.
Overview
When the engineer who wrote the extracts is leaving, knowledge often sits in chat history and undocumented scripts. Handover Pairing puts a RiverBase consultant beside the incoming owners to walk jobs, recreate failure scenarios, and write the missing runbook pages.
Typical activities
- Joint walkthrough of extract and transform code
- Controlled failure drills (late file, empty extract, type change)
- Runbook pages for restart, backfill, and escalation
- Sign-off checklist before the departing engineer’s last day