Question 280
A lone developer knows the billing reconciliation algorithm and will leave before system handover. The team has identified a response and must obtain a justified decision before moving forward. What should accountable decision makers require before moving forward?
Explanation
Correct Answer
This decision respects the accountable project authority and the scenario’s remaining exposure: Make handover completion contingent on demonstrated maintainability, not a signed attendance sheet. The response being governed is Identify critical undocumented logic and pair the developer with incoming maintainers for tested knowledge transfer. and the completion measure is A new maintainer performs a representative reconciliation fix without contacting the departing developer.
Incorrect Answers
Withhold final commercial acceptance until contractually required usable knowledge is transferred. That safeguard does not address the specific risk here: a source-code repository alone may not capture business assumptions or diagnostic know-how. The relevant follow-up is: Make handover completion contingent on demonstrated maintainability, not a signed attendance sheet.
Record product and funding decisions for localized scope through agreed stakeholder governance. That safeguard does not address the specific risk here: a source-code repository alone may not capture business assumptions or diagnostic know-how. The relevant follow-up is: Make handover completion contingent on demonstrated maintainability, not a signed attendance sheet.
Require the executive sponsor to authorize scale-up only against service-level value criteria. That safeguard does not address the specific risk here: a source-code repository alone may not capture business assumptions or diagnostic know-how. The relevant follow-up is: Make handover completion contingent on demonstrated maintainability, not a signed attendance sheet.