Executive summary
A governance pack that specifies the approval gates, acceptance criteria, and evidence standards a segment investment program must satisfy before each funding tranche is released and before changes are accepted into business as usual.
What is inside
What the evidence pack covers
The asset defines a five-gate architecture mapped to the program roadmap, shows how to write numeric acceptance criteria from the approved investment case, and sets the rules for evidence quality, exception handling, and escalation. It ends with the acceptance record that the benefits review will reconcile against.
- Scope: the gate architecture for one segment investment program, from evidence freeze to benefits handover
- Who sits on the acceptance panel and what authority each gate carries
- How acceptance criteria are written so a pass or fail is unambiguous
- What counts as acceptable evidence and how its freshness is checked
- How exceptions and waivers are raised, time-boxed, and closed
- The acceptance record that connects approved promises to the benefits review
- A worked synthetic gate review and a failure case to learn from