IMPLEMENTATION 280. Give It Away When the project is over and you are transferring it to another owner, hold a ceremony to “give it away” (like a father with a bride). Crying is optional. Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to join together this project with this new project manager. Do you, project manager, take this project, to own and support from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in scope and out of scope, to love and to cherish, till project closure do you part? [I do.] And now, by the power invested in me by COMPANY NAME, I hereby pronounce you successfully transistioned. You may now kiss your free–time goodbye. 145