Term · General Industry
Over-the-wall handoff
Passing work to the next team as a data drop with no shared ownership afterwards, as when front-end design throws a netlist to physical design, or hardware throws silicon to software.
The pattern is the usual root cause of late-stage surprises.
- Also known as
- Throw it over the wall, Wall handoff
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- Domain
- General Industry, Shop-floor jargon
Notes
Co-optimisation methods such as DTCO and STCO are, organisationally, attempts to remove these walls rather than manage them.
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