Who Trains a Module Owner's Replacement
Who must train a replacement when an owner leaves?
The departing owner. They know the area, the team, and what the role requires. Everyone else helps, but the outgoing owner drives the transition. Leave without a trained replacement and the company pays for an unmanaged handoff immediately, including when the company removes the owner and skips the handoff. The protection is knowledge transfer that is already part of the work, before anyone quits or is removed.
What makes documentation count without replacing the owner?
Documentation has to mirror the system it describes, the system has to generate and update it, and newcomers have to read it during onboarding. Outdated docs create false confidence, manual docs get abandoned under pressure, and unread docs are litter. Even when all three hold, documents do not decide. Only the human owner evaluates trade-offs and rejects requirements that lack economic justification. Working with the system is what transfers understanding. Reading about it is not enough.
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