Gates provides a structure to assess the quality and integrity of a project throughout its life cycle.
Gates are, in essence, acceptance reviews following which a project can advance to the next phase in the project life cycle. For each phase of the project, a series of gate conditions are defined and tracked. Each gate condition is evaluated against actual project data and is marked complete if conditions are met. Once all conditions are complete, the project moves to the next phase either automatically or manually, based on the configuration.
Phases and gate conditions are configured in the Gates Setup in Administration Mode.