A handover that is actually finished
Handing over code is not a handover. It is finished when your team can continue without us.
Many projects end with an archive of code and one closing meeting. Six months later, even a small change still returns to the same vendor — not because the contract requires it, but because nobody else knows how to run the thing.
A handover we consider finished has three proofs: someone from the client team ran the system on their own machine, someone from the client team shipped one small change to production, and the question "if this breaks at two in the morning, what is the first step" has a written answer.
All three take time, and that time goes into the quote. Vendor lock-in is not a business model we chose.
