Gate decision record
- Conditions met: 50% against 100%.
- Closed at the gate: 0 evidence items, 0 confirmations.
Executive Intelligence · Operations and Transformation
Transformation Program Intelligence
A programme and workstream register with milestones, dependencies, risks and owners.
Demonstration: Marlowe Textiles Ltd (fictional) · Manufacturing and export. Fictional data and a scripted answer.
The situation
- Organisation
- Marlowe Textiles Ltd (fictional)
- Who is asking
- Transformation director
- Industry
- Manufacturing and export
- What happened
- A three-year transformation reaches its second stage gate next week, and the steering committee must decide whether it may proceed.
The question asked
Has the programme met the conditions for passing the stage gate?
What it reads, and who can see the result
- Stage gate criteria documentWhat the steering committee requires.
- Programme evidence registerWhat the programme can show.
- Reads
- The criteria and the evidence index.
- Does not read
- Detailed project files.
- Permission
- Transformation office access.
- Who sees it
- The transformation director and the steering committee.
Try it
Resolve what is missing or out of date. Evidence counts only when it is attached, or when its owner confirms it is current; the sign-off needs the stated completeness.
50% complete · 100% needed
Benefits
- Benefits case re-baselined and agreed by finance PresentSigned by the finance director
- First-stage benefits verified in the ledger StaleVerified to June; July to September not yet checked
People
- Change impact assessed for every affected team MissingTwo of nine teams assessed
Delivery
- Next-stage plan resourced with named leads PresentLeads named; budget released
- Top risks have owners and mitigations PresentRisk log reviewed this month
Control
- Independent assurance review completed MissingNot yet commissioned
The answer
Simulated answer. Written for this fictional case, not produced by a live model. Only the figures in it are computed, from what you decided above.
The programme meets 50% of the gate conditions; the committee requires 100%.
Benefits, resourcing and risk are evidenced [S1][S2]. Three conditions are not: the benefits check is out of date, only two of nine teams have a change impact assessment, and the independent assurance review has not been commissioned.
A gate is a decision that the next stage may be funded, and it is more useful when it can say no. 3 remain open (First-stage benefits verified in the ledger; Change impact assessed for every affected team; Independent assurance review completed).
Relies on: S1 · Stage gate criteria, gate 2S2 · Programme evidence index
Review and approval
The steering committee chair decides. Approving records the gate as passed and releases the next stage's funding. It does not change the programme's scope or benefits case.
Not ready to approve. Evidence is 50% complete; the sign-off needs 100%.
In the product this is a different person with the right permission. Here you play that role to see the rule.
What it produces
Limits of this example
- A gate checks evidence of readiness, not whether the strategy is right.
- Evidence supplied late is still evidence, but how late matters to the committee.
- This is a scripted demonstration on fictional data. No model was called and no real organisation, person or result is shown.
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