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Employee quits or goes on short term disability:
- To ensure continuity of project, it requires filling of gap of that person. Someone with same potential can be chosen from other teams.
- A need of hiring a new person with same skill arises for fulfilling requirements of project properly.
- If such a replacement is not possible, then some other options should be checked with client instead of stopping project completely.
- If there are no other options, then project can be passed to some other teams or in worst case it could be terminated.
SDLC methodology for unplanned employee downtime:
- The Agile method offers greatest flexibility for unexpected employee interruption.
- It helps find a way to work with uncertainties.
- It works in short interval of time, performance is measured at each iteration...
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