A Handoff Needs a Capacity Boundary

Cristiano separates understanding a request from being willing and able to take it on. Khalid adds that a learning task needs support the role owner can genuinely provide—not an open-ended mentoring duty.

Together, they point to a useful distinction: delegating a task is not the same as transferring every hidden cost around it. Before a small handoff, name the outcome, the decisions the other person can make, and what support is actually available. Ask whether the scope fits their capacity now; if it changes, pause and renegotiate rather than quietly stretching the original agreement.

That protects the growth goal on both sides: one person gets room to practise, and the other does not become the permanent safety net. A handoff is more dependable when its limits are clear enough for either person to revise.