Quality gates
- Confirm build, test and security results
- Validate dependency and licence posture
- Approve immutable release artefacts
Azure DevOps Academy · governance guide
Release Assurance
Require objective evidence that a release is secure, supportable and ready for production.
Enterprise control patternEvidence-led review
Operational readiness
- Confirm runbooks, dashboards and alerts
- Validate support ownership and escalation
- Test rollback and recovery procedures
Release decision
- Review unresolved defects and risks
- Record go or no-go authority
- Measure post-release stability
Completion evidence
Produce a reviewed artefact for Azure DevOps Academy: named owner, approval date, linked evidence, unresolved risks and the next review trigger.