Milestone Gate
A quality checkpoint tied to a project milestone that must be satisfied before work advances to the next stage.
What is Milestone Gate?
What is Milestone Gate?
A milestone gate is a quality checkpoint attached to a project stage—feature complete, release candidate, go-live—where a defined set of criteria must be met before the team moves forward. Criteria typically include passing regression suites, resolving critical defects, and meeting coverage or performance targets. Milestone gates make quality expectations explicit and prevent premature progression under schedule pressure. Automated, deterministic test suites feed these gates with objective evidence, so the decision to advance rests on facts rather than optimism.