No Quality Gates for phases

No Quality Gates for phases: new feature verification, regression, pre-production validation, production smoke checks

Discovered by metrics:

Defect Containment, if internal team skips significant amount of valid issues which are captured by the external team during product acceptance or upon release / in production 

Bug Growth,  if issues logged during active iteration are not being fixed right away and moved to product quality debt

Open Bugs Over Time by Priority, if there is no enough attention to top-priority issues, i.e. the trend is not increasing or remaining stably high 

Time in Status, if verification phases (Code Review, Testing, Requirements Review, Refinement, etc.) are suspiciously quick

Recommendations: 

1. Introduce or enhance EngX in delivery

2. Introduce or enhance Test Approach

3. Build delivery plan - product and sprint levels