Release & Communication · master area

Release Gate

A state, not a meeting. Three signals: build green, QA paragraph signed, observability live. The TL is accountable; the gate is legible at a glance.

Owners: Tech Lead, QA, PO Phase it lives in: As We Build Read by: the team at flag-flip; the dashboard before that.

Where it lives in the chain

• As We Build · Release Gate — the canon

How to do this

• Practice — Release gate
• Checklist — Release gate · state, not meeting
• Template — Release brief to client
• Clinic — A flag that never got cleaned up
• Skill path — Tech Lead foundations · Step 7 · QA foundations · Step 7

Related crafts

• Gradual Rollout — what happens after the gate flips
• Release brief — what the client and CS receive
• Runbooks — what the on-call leans on if anything fires
• Flag lifecycle — what happens to the flag after the cycle