Gate Review Scheduling Models

On 2015 study, PMI research indicated that poor decisions because of ineffective communications is the first factor for projects failure with 56% of the studied cases.

Gate reviews is a form of communication which is a crucial part of project governance, especially for large and complex projects. Sometimes, this process might take months before you can get an approval. In this period, many events and developments happened before even you can go to a gate review

Some governance designs the Gate Review to be planned for every month or quarters or (both) and some designs it to be requested by the end of each stage. The later might (or might not) have ad hoc requested gate review when needed which is considered as a third Gate Review governance model. This add a degree of complexity to project scheduling to identify the critical milestones. So how can we schedule the gate reviews correctly?

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