Why do we need Release Gates?
Before starting this topic on the importance of Release Gates, lets first understand – what is a Release Gate?
A Release Gate can be defined as a milestone or health indicator of a release at that very point in time. Milestones are like stones placed beside a road to mark the distance you have covered successfully in your journey. Each Gate defines any criteria which must be met to mark it as completed.- provide short term targets for projects to achieve, in order to keep them on the right track
- assist in providing confidence to key stakeholders and business investors that everything is going fine
- help in pro-actively fixing the problems in the journey in advance – which also leads to keeping control of release costs.
- The perception of tracking the gates for each project being ‘too much work’.
- No active tracking of Release Gates by project and release managers leads to slippages.
- Release managers are sometimes overworked with project management type activities, causing gates to become an overload and get bypassed.
- Lack of documentation of gates criteria can lead to people not following gates
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