Before a release lands, we run a Release Readiness Review: a practical walkthrough of impact hypotheses, rollback readiness, and the signals that will tell you whether the change is behaving as intended.
Scope
We examine the release candidate against production reality — blast radius, feature flags, data migrations, and the first-hour watch list. The output is a readiness memo, not a gate that blocks shipping.
Included
- Impact hypothesis workshop (up to 90 minutes)
- Observability coverage gap list for the change
- Rollback and mitigation path review
- First-hour and first-day signal checklist
- One written readiness memo
Excluded
Approval authority over your release calendar, load testing execution, and post-deploy monitoring shifts.