Innovation · Pipeline and gates · Component
Gate criteria
The must-meet and kill criteria for each gate, together with any scoring scale, written down before any project reaches it.
The deliverable
What it is
Gate criteria are what make a gate a decision. Set in advance and applied to every project alike, they turn the meeting from a presentation into a check.
Kill criteria are the part that is often missing. They state in advance what result, cost or delay would end a project, so that stopping does not depend on someone finding the courage in the room.
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What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
Must-meet criteria
The conditions a project has to satisfy to pass the gate, each with a threshold that can be checked against evidence.
2 attributes: Criterion · Threshold
LearnKill criteria
The results, costs or delays that would end the project at this gate, agreed before the project reaches it.
3 attributes: Kill condition · Trigger level · Set on
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Ask the sponsor to write the kill criteria. It is the quickest way to learn what they believe the project depends on.
The other components in pipeline and gates
Stage map
The stages every idea passes through on its way to operation, what each stage is meant to establish, and what it hands on.
LearnPipeline register
Every live innovation bet in one list: its stage, its sponsor, what it holds in people and money, and how long it has waited.
LearnGate decision record
What was decided at each gate, by whom, on what evidence, and with which conditions attached to continuing.
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