Name: Project Handover Checklist
SKU: project-handover-checklist
Availability: InStock

01 What's inside

01project-handover-checklist.pdfPDFThe checklist as a three-page A4 PDF, with each item written as a thing to confirm and a one-line note on what goes wrong when it is missed. (46 checklist items)~170 KB
02project-handover-checklist.mdMarkdownThe same 46 items as plain Markdown with empty tick boxes, ready to paste into Notion, Obsidian, a GitHub issue or a ticket. (46 checklist items)~11 KB

2 files

02 Specification

File formats: PDF, Markdown
File size: ~181 KB total
What you need: Requires a PDF reader; the Markdown file opens in any text editor or note app.
Compatibility: The Markdown uses standard task-list syntax, so tick boxes render in Notion, Obsidian, GitHub, GitLab and most ticket systems.
The PDF is three pages, A4, and prints legibly in black and white.
Contents are in English. Both files are unprotected: no password, no watermark, no restriction on editing or printing.
No email address is required to download it, and nothing in the files phones home.
Language: English
Technical protection: No DRM. Files are not password-protected.
Licence: Commercial licence — what you may and may not do with these files.
Version: 1.0
Updated: 13 July 2026
Delivery: Download link on screen and by email as soon as your payment is confirmed. See how buying works.

03 Suited to / not suited to

Suited to

Freelancers and small studios closing out client projects
Anyone taking over a project from someone who has already left
Teams who want the same close-out to happen whoever runs it

Not suited to

Software teams decommissioning production infrastructure — that needs a runbook, not a checklist
Anyone looking for the legal side of ending a contract; none of this is legal wording

04 Licence

Licence

Commercial licence — what you may and may not do with these files.

05 Version and changes

Version 1.0Initial release.2026-07-13

06 Questions about this product

Do I have to give an email address?

No. Pressing the download button mints a link and starts the download. There is no form, no account and no list.

Can I put my own logo on it and send it to a client?

Yes. Edit the Markdown or rebuild the layout, use it in your own client work, and hand the result to a client. The one thing the licence rules out is reselling or republishing it as a downloadable file of your own.

Does it cover code handover?

Partly. Repositories, environment variables, DNS and third-party service accounts are all on the list. Deployment procedures, infrastructure teardown and data migration are not — those are specific to a stack.

Why is it free?

Because it is the kind of thing that should be, and because it shows how everything else here is written: specific items, honest scope, no filler.