Stage-gate project governance model
Stage gate separates execution within stages from go, kill, hold, or redirect decisions at gates, giving a single decider Authority over the Flow of funded work, all recorded in an auditable gate evidence log.
Robert G. Cooper, 1980s
The origin of the framework, as the directory records it. The mark grades the origin, not this page.
Umbrex, Stage-gate project governance model
The directory entry this score was read from. Umbrex is a consultancy network; its summary is the reference, not a primary source.
Scored against the twelve cells, it loads three: Authority, Flow, and Evidence. The other nine it leaves to you. Of Composition, Evidence, and Mastery, the three cells that go blank first when an agent enters a workflow, it loads Evidence.
It describes the The Gated Pipeline shape; the shape page lists it under Described in the literature.
This is not a summary of the framework. Umbrex has one; the link under Sources goes there.
Which decisions may an agent make alone, and who is able to stop it?
What limits throughput, and what is supposed to happen when the line stops?
What would you show an auditor, and can the system produce it without being asked?