Transfers of ownership—on‑call rotations, sprint handovers, vacation coverage, or task reassignments—are predictable moments of risk that routinely leak into incidents and rework. The Handover Passport is a tiny, one‑page artifact a departing owner fills in five minutes before transfer: current risks, active mitigations, one‑minute repro steps for the most likely failures, recent oddities, and explicit stop/escape triggers. In this episode Mirko explains why handing off intent is different from handing off tickets, contrasts business needs for continuity with engineering realities of hidden coupling, and reads three live Passport examples (on‑call, sprint-to-sprint, vacation). You’ll get a 7‑day pilot plan (use passports for five transfers, verify discovery in one observed incident), concrete phrasing to make the ritual frictionless, and pragmatic rules to avoid information overload or security exposure. CTA: attach one Handover Passport to your next ownership transfer this week and leave a review if it prevented a scramble.

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