The best work changes hands without losing purpose.

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

Most things lose their purpose in the handover. The new owners inherit the mechanics without the reasons, so they optimise the visible parts and quietly discard the point. Work that survives changing hands has its purpose written into it plainly enough that a stranger can find it.

Write down why, not just how, and put it where whoever comes next will actually look. One honest paragraph about what this is for outlasts a great deal of documentation about procedure.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Would your work still make sense if you handed it over tomorrow?

Free, with nothing to buy inside it.