Week 12 · Delivery & handover · about 3 minutes
What you will be able to do
Leave Helix's ops team a runbook that lets them run the system without you.
The idea
A runbook covers start/stop, common failures, dashboards, escalation. Written for someone who was not on the project.
If they still page you for restarts, you did not hand over.
## Restart API
1. …
## Common alerts
…
## Escalate
…Handover is a document and a drill, not a vibe.
Key takeaways
- Write the runbook.
- Drill it.
- Stop being the SPOF.
Part of the Forward Deployed Engineer roadmap. New to the role? Start with what a Forward Deployed Engineer does.