Go/no-go decision: [release identifier]

Decision context

Field	Value
Release/artifact/configuration
Target environment and scope
Evidence package
Meeting/time
Release authority
Participants

Gate summary

Gate	Result	Evidence or exception
No immediate no-go condition is present
Critical journeys meet approved objectives
Current evidence covers every critical requirement
No residual risk exceeds risk tolerance
Rollout and stop criteria are ready
Rollback or safe roll-forward is proven
Restore and incident response are proven
Monitoring, on-call, support, and communications are ready
Required sign-offs are complete

Open items

Control/exception	Impact	Owner	Due/expiry	Monitoring

Decision

Select one:

• GO — Every release-blocking item passes and residual risk is within tolerance.
• CONDITIONAL GO — Remaining issues are not blockers, have tested compensating controls, named risk owners, monitoring, remediation dates, and automatic expiry; launch scope is bounded.
• NO-GO — Evidence is missing or stale, a blocker remains, recovery is unproven, required approval is absent, or remaining risk is not understood.

Decision:

Rationale:

Conditions or reduced scope:

Observation period:

Stop, rollback, and incident-declaration thresholds:

Approval

Role	Name	Approve/Reject	Time	Notes
Release authority
Business risk owner
Engineering/operations
Required specialists

Production-readiness declaration

Release [identifier], represented by artifact [digest] and configuration [version], has passed all applicable production-readiness gates documented in evidence package [reference]. No known unresolved risk exceeds the approved risk tolerance. Remaining accepted risks are recorded with owners, controls, monitoring, remediation dates, and expiry. Deployment, rollback or roll-forward, restoration, incident response, and customer communication have been tested and are ready.