All projects must progress through a series of
steps. At each step, there should be a review and approval
decision. These "gateway" reviews are intended to provide
a time-out when senior management can take a step back from the
hurly-burly of day-to-day business to ask fundamental questions such as:
Is the project still relevant to achieving our overall
long-term objectives?
Are the benefits still realisable?
Is the project still achievable?
Have we identified all of the risks?
Have we the staff and budgets to complete the project?
Has the organisation the capacity to absorb the project?
