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IT Projects Success – Principle #9: Leave a record of what you have done, so the project will not miss you if you leave.

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9.   Leave a record of what you have done, so the project will not miss you if you leave.

If change is the only constant, then resources on a project willchange. The risk in such change is that a person’s contribution to aproject will be lost, and that the new person assigned to the projectwill have to start over. This is a particular risk in “quick and dirty”projects where an operating result is produced, but no one else canunderstand the code that was produced. However, if the contributioninvolves producing quality artifacts as described in #8 above, there isalways a point-in-time record of what has been accomplished so far,which can be used by new project resources to continue the project withminimal disruption.

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