Signoff closes in gates, not in a single heroic week. Each gate has entry and exit criteria, each owner has a checklist, readiness has a definition everyone shares, and the implementation and test teams receive a handoff they can actually use. This topic turns “we are clean” from a feeling into a checkable claim.
Lesson | After it you can... |
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Name the gates through a project and their entry and exit criteria. | |
Apply the design, verification, and signoff checklists. | |
Judge whether “closed” is true: findings, waivers, constraints, dynamic checks. | |
List what implementation and test teams need about crossings and constraints. |
Because each gate catches its class of problem while fixing is still cheap, and the exit criteria of one gate are the entry criteria of the next — a single final review compresses all of that into the moment of maximum schedule pressure.