Overview

Based on the Google SRE Book and "Accelerate" by Forsgren, Humble & Kim. Google SRE's error budget concept reframes the release gate: instead of "is it good enough to ship?", ask "how much of the error budget does this risk consuming?" Accelerate's research shows that high-performing teams ship more frequently AND have lower change failure rates - speed and quality are not a tradeoff, they're correlated.

QA Release

Run release gates, triage defects, and produce formal sign-off decisions.

When to Use

• Making a go/no-go decision before a release
• Running a defect triage session with engineering and PM
• Writing a formal release sign-off report
• Setting and enforcing quality gates for a CI/CD pipeline
• Communicating release quality status to stakeholders

Inputs to Gather