Module 3: Project delivery, implementation, and handover

heads up

to lead or be in charge of

Marcus ... ... the platform engineering team.

carried over into

to move unfinished work into the next phase

Three open tickets were ... ... ... next week's sprint.

carried over to

to pass unfinished work to a specific person or team

The outstanding configuration issues were ... ... ... the new infrastructure lead.

held up

to delay something

A failed dependency check ... ... the deployment for an hour. [Past]

tied up with

fully occupied, no capacity for anything else

The DevOps team is ... ... ... a critical security patch this week.

contracted out to

to hire an external company for a task

The company ... ... its load testing ... a specialist agency. [Past]

flagged up

to draw attention to a problem or risk

A code reviewer ... ... a memory leak in the new build. [Past]

wound up

to formally close something

The team ... ... the legacy support contract at year-end. [Past]

hooked up to

to connect one system to another

The engineer ... ... the staging server ... the monitoring tool. [Past]

stepped in

to get involved to help or take over

A senior developer ... ... when the build kept failing. [Past]

handed over to

to formally transfer to another person or team

The outgoing sysadmin ... ... the server credentials ... his successor. [Past]

handed off to

to pass work to the next team in a process

The dev team ... ... the bug report ... the QA team. [Past]

signed off on

to formally approve something

The release manager ... ... ... the final build last night. [Past]