There are many reasons for knowledge transfer to be a necessity, regardless of the reasons the challenge is always effective movement of the experts knowledge to the fresh engineers. Most legacy applications have been developed and changed over decades, and documentation is usually lacking and not up to date. Also, often times these applications are mission critical and the company cannot afford to have them be offline.
Traditionally interviews and long technical trainings looking at the applications source code have been the norm. But this process is ineffective, and impractical. Below are a list of suggestions of best practices that are expounded on in the full document.
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