Release Readiness

Release readiness is determined by assessing evidence across PM, Engineer, Review, execution, and QA artifacts to produce a grounded ship or hold recommendation. This prevents guessing by enforcing strict gating rules that require real upstream validation results.

Validating rollback and observability readiness requires checking for blocking issues, unresolved critical follow-ups, and documentation within your release artifacts. This gating process ensures all safety criteria are met before shipping code changes.

You enforce strict QA-aware gating by requiring real execution and QA artifacts before approving a release. Failed QA outcomes are treated as automatic release blockers, preventing the system from inventing validation evidence or bypassing safety checks.

Yes, release readiness can be assessed for workflows with medium or high risk and open follow-ups. The system evaluates these conditions alongside QA artifacts and outputs a validated recommendation of ready, ready with caveats, or not ready.

You should not use automated release readiness assessment before implementation has run and QA has produced outcomes. The strict gating rules require real upstream execution and QA artifacts, so it cannot validate changes lacking recorded test results.