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Before you commission an app, write one thing you should be able to test at handover.
For a booking app, that could be: a customer chooses an available time, gets confirmation and can see the booking again after signing back in. The owner should see the same booking.
That is a hypothetical example. Your business may need a different test. Add the awkward cases too: someone loses their connection, picks a slot that has just been taken, or needs to cancel.
Give that short test to your developer with the brief. It helps both of you agree what the first version needs to do, and gives you something concrete to check before you sign it off.
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When someone takes over a workflow, they need to know what starts it, what each status means, and what to do if a step does not happen as expected.
For client onboarding, that might mean checking whether the intake form arrived, whether the next task was created, and who follows up when information is missing.
Include a sample run in the handoff. Let the person who will use the system follow the instructions, then note where they need help. Try an incomplete submission as well as a complete one.
That practice can reveal unclear steps while there is still time to improve the instructions.
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The site was up. Uptime said 100%. The thing that actually made the client money was broken.
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