Training up your replacement

[JamesCooperLiverpool]

Anyone been through this demoralising process?

I work for a major hospitality clent, in the middke of a huge priject on which I have a lot of ownership but just been told that, despite all tge outstanding work, tgey have to look at budgets abd I wont be renewed. Un tge meantime tget are drafting in a consuktancy called Epam to replace all the contractors and please can you spend your last month handing over all tge hard work yiuve done over tge last 12 montgs. Im guttrd

[ShandyDrinker]

You are a sockie?

Even if you aren't, learning to write coherent sentences may help. I'd terminate your contract just for your post and lack of intelligibility. Call yourself a contractor?

[northernladuk]

How are we supposed to take you sersiously with that pile of excrement.

Contracts come to an end, it's what we do. Suck it up buttercup.

[SussexSeagull]

I do a handover, i.e. make them aware of outstanding work and any internal processes relevant to the project, but don't train people up. They should be recruiting people with the correct skills to start with.

[northernladuk]

I do a handover, i.e. make them aware of outstanding work and any internal processes relevant to the project, but don't train people up. They should be recruiting people with the correct skills to start with.

Skills is not the same as knowledge. It's likely they have got people with the right skills if they've engaged a consultancy properly. What they will lack is knowledge.

[pr1]

Anyone been through this demoralising process?

I work for a major hospitality clent, in the middke of a huge priject on which I have a lot of ownership but just been told that, despite all tge outstanding work, tgey have to look at budgets abd I wont be renewed. Un tge meantime tget are drafting in a consuktancy called Epam to replace all the contractors and please can you spend your last month handing over all tge hard work yiuve done over tge last 12 montgs. Im guttrd

It happens. Maybe they wouldn't be looking to replace you if you hadn't taken the p*ss billing for doing no work in the first 3 weeks, who knows.

I think you need a new keyboard though

3 weeks on this one. It's great when you'rr 100% WFH as atvleastbyou don't have to sit around twiddling your thumbs trying to look busy

[jmo21]

Yeah, post formatting aside, there is quite a difference between the subject of the post, "Training up your replacement" (not a chance!), and doing a handover (professional).

Talk them through the meat of your project work (dev: the code, tester: the test plans, PM: the project plans), show them where stuff lives (jira, source control, wikis, servers), demo anything that can be demoed.

I would also make sure relevant people are aware of what meetings/topics you have scheduled/done, who attended etc.

[malvolio]

To be honest, any competent consultancy will be the lead on this kind of work, and they should be asking the relevant questions, not you teaching them what they need to know.

So cooperate, answer their questions but don't fret about not being particularly proactive. Its not your project and while we all get invested in big projects, we are not actually an inherent component, we are merely a delivery mechanism.

I left one when it was 95% done to universal praise from the client, when they had to find a job for one of their guys. It happens.

[SussexSeagull]

Skills is not the same as knowledge. It's likely they have got people with the right skills if they've engaged a consultancy properly. What they will lack is knowledge.

The OP said training up. Probably getting into schematics but training and handover are two different things to me.

[northernladuk]

The OP said training up. Probably getting into schematics but training and handover are two different things to me.

He also says 'handing over', or I think he does, in the last line. Can't really take any points as given with that awful mess though.