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Release readiness assessment: [release identifier]

Copy this file for each release. Link detailed evidence records instead of pasting secrets, personal data, or large raw reports.

Release identity

Field Value
Release identifier
Source commit/tag
Artifact/image digest
Configuration version
Database migrations
Feature-flag state
Target environment/regions
Previous known-good release
Planned deployment window
Assessment owner
Evidence snapshot time

Scope

Critical user journeys

  • [Journey, user, expected outcome]

Included components

  • [Service, worker, frontend, scheduled job, infrastructure component]

Data and third parties

  • [Data classification, store, processor/provider]

Exclusions

Excluded area Rationale Reviewer

Track applicability

Track Required? Owner Rationale or evidence location
Release foundations Yes
Product, risk, and architecture
Source, build, and supply chain
Environments, quality, and experience
Application security
Data, privacy, and performance
Reliability and operations
Maintenance, vendors, and compliance
Conditional feature modules
Evidence, sign-off, and decision Yes

Immediate no-go screen

No-go controls describe dangerous conditions. A Yes result stops the release.

Control Condition present? Evidence Owner Resolution
PRC-02-001–PRC-02-020 No / Yes / Unknown

Control results

Duplicate rows as needed or link to a control-management system.

Control ID Status Evidence Owner Reviewer Evidence date/expiry Next action
PRC- Pass / Fail / Blocked / N/A

Open blockers and failures

Control ID Impact Owner Required action Due

Risk exceptions

Exception Controls Risk owner Compensating control Expiry

Evidence package

  • Architecture and data-flow diagrams:
  • Threat model:
  • Test reports:
  • Security and dependency reports:
  • Accessibility evidence:
  • Performance and capacity evidence:
  • Resilience, restore, and rollback evidence:
  • Monitoring, alerting, on-call, and runbooks:
  • Legal, privacy, contractual, and third-party review:
  • Deployment and post-deployment plan:

Sign-offs

Area Signer Decision Date Notes
Product Approve / Reject / Conditional
Engineering
Quality
Security
Reliability/operations
Data
Privacy
Accessibility
Legal/compliance
Support
Business risk
Release authority

Decision

  • Decision: GO / CONDITIONAL GO / NO-GO
  • Decision-maker:
  • Time:
  • Rationale:
  • Observation period:
  • Stop/rollback criteria:
  • Follow-up review:

Use the full go/no-go decision record for material launches.