ABSTRACT
The team had reached the final steps of the planning process. They now had enough information to update the business case and present the final version for approval. This would be the second of what are sometimes called tollgates or major decision points in the project. The first was the go/no-go decision at the end of the Initiation/ Definition phase when the initial business case was presented. Like tollgates on a highway, project gates require the team to stop, at least briefly, while a transaction occurs. On a highway, the transaction is payment of a toll; on a project, it is a review of the progress to date.
