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What are quality gates?
Quality gates are the criteria a release must meet before it can proceed, defined before the work starts rather than negotiated at the end.
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Delivery
Delivery knowledge Delivery knowledge covers how work flows across teams once it is planned: flow metrics, work-in-progress, blockers, and release rhythm.
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What is a coordination rhythm?
A coordination rhythm is the fixed schedule of cross-team conversations that resolve dependencies and surface blockers while there is still time to act.
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What is a sprint goal system?
A sprint goal system links each team's sprint goal to the portfolio objective it serves, so team-level progress is legible at portfolio level.
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What is dependency ownership?
Dependency ownership assigns every cross-team dependency to one named person who is responsible for resolving it, by an agreed date.
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What is release readiness?
Release readiness is the evidence-based decision that a release can go to production, run as a go or no-go review against the quality gates.
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WIP limits checklist: signs limits are holding
What healthy work-in-progress limits look like, why they erode over time, and the mistakes that turn a limit into decoration.
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