CDC Signoff Methodology

Section goal

End-to-end CDC flow, waiver governance, readiness gates, and dashboard-driven closure.

How to study this section

1. Start with topic hubs to classify problem shapes.

2. Use mechanism and reports pages to connect risk signals to evidence.

3. Practice debug and worked examples before signoff reviews.

4. Close with checklist and silicon impact before approving fixes or waivers.

Topics

1. cdc-tool-flow/ — CDC Tool Flow

2. cdc-waiver-policy/ — CDC Waiver Policy

3. cdc-review-gate/ — CDC Review Gate

4. cdc-signoff-dashboard/ — CDC Signoff Dashboard

Related topics

• CDC/RDC course hub

CDC/RDC deep dive

Signoff is an evidence governance problem across teams.

Concept diagram

CDC SIGNOFF LOOP

analysis -> triage -> fix/waive -> review gate -> dashboard

Metric graph

CRITICAL OPEN COUNT

week1 34
week2 22
week3 10
week4 0

Reports and artifacts

• critical by owner

• waiver quality

• review gate status

• closure trend

Mini case study

Pass rates improved while critical waivers aged out of policy; dashboard exposed hidden risk.

Debug branches

• Separate quality from quantity metrics

• enforce waiver expiry

• run gate checklists consistently

Senior review question

Ask: what evidence proves this risk is closed for silicon, not just tool-clean?