Sample readout
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Sample Operating Mechanism Review readout →← Operating System family
Process health check · no storage
Which operating system gates do you actually meet?
Answer yes or no against the family’s published entry and exit gates. The result stays in this tab, lists unmet gates with links back to the process steps and measures, and never writes to a server.
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Nothing leaves this browser · 0/25 answered · showing 25 of 34 family gates
entry gate · 01 of 25 · Redesign Work and Workflow
The work, customer, operating outcome, and accountable owner are identified.
entry gate · 02 of 25 · Redesign Work and Workflow
The scope boundaries and triggering need are explicit.
entry gate · 03 of 25 · Redesign Work and Workflow
People who perform and receive the work can participate.
exit gate · 04 of 25 · Redesign Work and Workflow
The future-state workflow, decisions, roles, interfaces, controls, data, and systems are approved.
exit gate · 05 of 25 · Redesign Work and Workflow
Baseline, outcome, quality, cycle-time, adoption, exception, and guardrail measures are defined.
exit gate · 06 of 25 · Redesign Work and Workflow
A pilot or proportionate validation shows the workflow can operate.
exit gate · 07 of 25 · Redesign Work and Workflow
Transition ownership, training, support, rollback, and review points are assigned.
entry gate · 08 of 25 · Design and Validate a Recurring Human Practice
The supported process, operating condition, intended outcome, accountable owner, and practice boundary are explicit.
entry gate · 09 of 25 · Design and Validate a Recurring Human Practice
Representative participants and relevant power, access, privacy, safety, and qualification conditions are identifiable.
entry gate · 10 of 25 · Design and Validate a Recurring Human Practice
The design need is not being used to avoid a process, authority, capacity, conduct, or system problem.
exit gate · 11 of 25 · Design and Validate a Recurring Human Practice
Purpose, trigger, participants, preparation, interaction moves, judgment boundaries, outputs, follow-through, enablement, safeguards, and measures are controlled.
exit gate · 12 of 25 · Design and Validate a Recurring Human Practice
Representative normal, edge, failure, recovery, accessibility, and misuse scenarios have been tested.
exit gate · 13 of 25 · Design and Validate a Recurring Human Practice
The receiving process accepts the output contract and material risks have qualified dispositions.
exit gate · 14 of 25 · Design and Validate a Recurring Human Practice
An authorized version, operator support, review cadence, and improvement route exist.
entry gate · 15 of 25 · Select a Business System
The business need, accountable owner, decision authority, budget boundary, and decision date are explicit.
entry gate · 16 of 25 · Select a Business System
The approved workflow and material requirements exist or are authorized for completion.
entry gate · 17 of 25 · Select a Business System
There are at least two realistic alternatives, including maintaining or improving the current state where credible.
exit gate · 18 of 25 · Select a Business System
The selected option and rejected alternatives are supported by traceable evidence and approved rationale.
exit gate · 19 of 25 · Select a Business System
Total economics, implementation assumptions, data rights, integrations, support, risks, and contractual conditions are visible.
exit gate · 20 of 25 · Select a Business System
Authorized client owners approve the business, technical, financial, procurement, and context-specific risk decision.
exit gate · 21 of 25 · Select a Business System
Implementation receives a controlled decision package without needing to reconstruct the selection.
entry gate · 22 of 25 · Implement a Business System
The business need, intended outcome, accountable client owner, and funding are approved.
entry gate · 23 of 25 · Implement a Business System
The future-state workflow and material system requirements are controlled.
entry gate · 24 of 25 · Implement a Business System
The selected system, vendor responsibilities, internal responsibilities, and contractual assumptions are known.
exit gate · 25 of 25 · Implement a Business System
The production system executes or enables the approved workflow and passes required acceptance criteria.
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