Phase gate
A small set of pre-agreed, objective, checkable conditions, including at least one hold-or-kill condition, that must all be true before a plan may proceed to the next phase; owned by someone with authority to stop the program, and written down before the gate is reached so it cannot be renegotiated under pressure.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Business AI Transformation.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A small set of pre-agreed, objective, checkable conditions, including at least one hold-or-kill condition, that must all be true before a plan may proceed to the next phase; owned by someone with authority to stop the program, and written down before the gate is reached so it cannot be renegotiated under pressure.
The specific, written evidence threshold that must be met before a rollout advances from one phase to the next, and the specific event that would send it backward. A phase gate that can only move a rollout forward is not a real gate.
A formal review held before moving from one transformation phase to the next, against pre-agreed criteria, with three honest outcomes: proceed, extend the current phase, or reassess. Progression is never automatic.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- Ship the Agent in Stages, Never All at Once · Rollout, Monitoring, and Incident Response, Agentic AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- The Operating Charter That Protects the Role · Own the AI Transformation Mandate, Business AI Transformation
- Multi-Year Roadmap Design · Strategic Roadmapping, Business AI Transformation
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.