A pilot without a decision date becomes a permanent experiment. Gate criteria give the organization a way to say yes, no or not yet.
Typical criteria
- Quality: accuracy and error rates on a representative test set at or above the target.
- Value: the measured improvement over the baseline covers the full run cost.
- Adoption: the intended users actually use it.
- Risk: security and compliance reviews complete; incident process in place.
- Operations: named owner, monitoring and support arrangements.
Set the criteria and the review date at kickoff. Changing them afterwards to fit the result defeats the purpose.