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The Handover Folder Blog
Short, practical reads on runbooks, on-call, and turning tribal knowledge into something the whole team can follow.
What to document before you leave
The short, calm list of what to hand over before your last day — so you leave the system, not a mystery.
July 3, 2026
The 2am test
One simple question that tells you whether a runbook is any good — would it help someone half-asleep fix it?
July 1, 2026
Tribal knowledge is a quiet risk
Why "everyone just knows how it works" is a hidden risk — and the calm, blameless way to defuse it.
June 27, 2026
Onboarding a new engineer, calmly
A self-serve path that gets a new hire productive without twenty Slack pings a day.
June 24, 2026
Runbook vs. wiki vs. README
What goes where — a simple split so your docs stop turning into a swamp nobody trusts.
June 20, 2026
Disclaimer: The Handover Folder is a documentation tool, not a secrets manager. Never paste credentials, tokens, or private keys into a runbook — reference them from your real secrets store.