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We were doing a knowledge transfer from our Pakistan team to India as part of a team transition. The KT included deployment documentation with step-by-step instructions and links. The team had already completed two successful deployments using these documents. I was on the third deployment call, just observing, when I noticed one of the deployment links pointed to a personal SharePoint belonging to a Pakistan team member. Once that person was offboarded, that document — and everything linked from it — would disappear. I raised the risk immediately on the call. We paused and downloaded that document to our DevOps SharePoint. Then I initiated a full audit of all KT documentation and found multiple documents with the same problem — personal links, personal drives, references that would break after offboarding. We rewrote all deployment documents with internal links only. I also went to leadership and requested that we preserve the Pakistan team's SharePoint and virtual desktops — remove all access, but don't delete them. Originally approved for 30 days, we ended up keeping them for 6 months as a safety net. Every subsequent deployment ran smoothly with zero dependency on offboarded resources. We avoided what could have been a production deployment failure with no documentation to fall back on. It also became our standard practice for any future team transitions — always audit and internalize documentation before offboarding.
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Situation (15 sec): KT from Pakistan to India team — deployment docs with step-by-step instructions and links. Two successful deployments already completed. Task (10 sec): On the 3rd deployment call as an observer, spotted a link pointing to a personal SharePoint — would disappear once that team member was offboarded. Action (30 sec): Raised risk on the call → paused, downloaded doc to DevOps SharePoint → full audit of all KT docs → found multiple personal links → rewrote all with internal links only → requested leadership preserve (not delete) Pakistan team's SharePoint and desktops for 6 months as safety net. Result (15 sec): Zero dependency on offboarded resources in all subsequent deployments. Became standard practice for team transitions. Power line: "Removing access was fine, but deleting knowledge was not an option during a transition."
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