Artifact: Succession-and-Delegation Plan — Growing Jordan Into a Lead

A plan delegating a manager's own responsibilities to grow a future lead, staged by observable trigger signals -- exercises co-08, co-01. Everline and every name here are fictional; every detail is an illustrative, constructed example.

Transfer order and trigger signals:

1. First: sprint-planning facilitation. Trigger to start: Jordan has already run two planning sessions informally when Priya was out (observed evidence, not a guess). Jordan facilitates every planning session going forward; Priya attends as a participant only.
2. Second (once #1 is stable for a full quarter): on-call escalation ownership -- being the first call when an incident needs a decision beyond the on-call engineer's authority. Trigger to start: Jordan has independently led two production incidents to resolution.
3. Third (once #2 is stable): representing the team in roadmap negotiations with product. Trigger to start: Jordan has written at least one trade-off memo, reviewed and endorsed by Priya, that could have been sent to product as-is.

What stays with Priya for now: hiring decisions and performance calibration -- these transfer last, once Jordan is functioning as a de facto lead across the first three areas.