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System integration handoff checklist: what your team should own.
Ownership is specific: accounts, source, configuration, records and the instructions to operate each connection. Agree the list before the project begins.
Handoff is part of the delivery
A system integration handoff checklist defines how the customer can operate the delivered work after go-live. Source access is useful, but it is only one item. The team also needs customer-controlled accounts, operating knowledge and clear responsibility for each connection.
Utenx’s current offer includes repo access, credentials, data exports and runbooks. The checklist below turns those commitments into questions to agree in scope. It is a generic preparation artifact, not a claim that every possible item is included in every engagement.
Accounts and access
- Which accounts are owned by the customer?
- Who can administer each product and revoke temporary access?
- Where are credentials managed and how can they be rotated?
- Which third-party licences or limits affect future use?
- Which roles may inspect, operate or change the system?
Do not publish credentials in a handoff document. Describe the controlled transfer process and the people responsible. The project should identify any dependency that remains outside customer ownership.
Source and configuration
- Repository and delivered source version.
- Configuration and environment responsibilities.
- The process to deploy a reviewed change.
- Required third-party services and licence information.
- Known limitations and excluded scope.
Agree what the receiving team needs to reproduce or maintain the work. A source archive without operating context can still leave the customer dependent on the original builder.
Connections and business records
- A system diagram identifying the connected tools.
- Record types, important field mappings and identifiers.
- The source of truth for important business values.
- Triggers, directions and expected update behavior.
- How duplicates, retries and incomplete records are handled.
Operations and acceptance
A runbook should help an operator answer three questions: is the connection working, what failed, and what do I do next? Identify the relevant logs, alerts and recovery steps. Name the owner of each action instead of assuming someone else will monitor it.
Preserve the acceptance criteria, release decision and any unresolved limitations. State how the team can revert or pause a change where the scope includes that operating requirement. Support arrangements should be explicit and optional where the engagement promises independent ownership.
A useful real-world reference
The published duty-of-care project describes an offline-capable mobile workflow with local queuing and delivery when connectivity returns, followed by handoff to the client team. It is an example of why operation and ownership must fit the environment, rather than relying on a builder being available every time the network fails. Read the project summary.
Download and prepare
Download the plain-text integration readiness checklist. It is available without a form. Fill in system owners, the workflow and the acceptance decision before a scoping call.
Bring the current operating constraints and the people who will receive the system. The checklist can identify what mapping must resolve before a reliable build quote is possible.
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