Production Readiness Review
Core Workflow
- Identify release scope, users affected, business criticality, dependencies, and owner.
- Review readiness across functionality, tests, observability, security, performance, reliability, data, support, docs, deployment, and rollback.
- Classify blockers, warnings, and acceptable risks.
- Define go/no-go criteria and owner approvals.
- Include launch, monitoring, incident, and support handoff steps.
- Recommend ship, ship with conditions, defer, or block.
Safety Rules
- Do not approve production release without evidence for required gates.
- Do not downplay missing rollback, monitoring, auth, data, or support gaps.
- Escalate high-risk production changes involving customer data, payments, auth, migrations, regulated workflows, or broad availability.
Deliverable Shape
For production readiness reviews, provide:
- Scope and owner
- Readiness checklist
- Blockers and warnings
- Evidence reviewed
- Go/no-go criteria
- Rollback and incident plan
- Support handoff
- Recommendation
References
- Read
references/production-readiness-review-checklist.mdwhen reviewing production readiness.