Quick answer
Holiday coverage planning keeps projects alive through December without burning out the people who stay. Here’s a practical system for coverage rosters and scope freezes.
Build the coverage roster
Who’s off when, who’s the on-call backup for each critical system, and what ’emergency’ actually means — publish it by mid-November.
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Freeze scope early
No new work starts after mid-December. Finishing beats starting: a half-done feature over the holidays is worse than a deferred one.
Handoff notes
Every active task gets a one-paragraph handoff: state, next action, who to ask. The covering person shouldn’t have to reverse-engineer anything.
After the break
15-minute incident review: what broke, what the coverage missed, what to change next year.
Bottom line
Holiday coverage planning keeps projects alive through December without burning out the people who stay. Here’s a practical system for coverage rosters and scope freezes.
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