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By creating launch guidance, we help ensure that every product team benefits from the cumulative and collective experience of the entire organization, especially Operations. Launch guidance and requirements will likely include the following: Defect counts and severity: Does the application actually perform as designed? Type/frequency of pager alerts: Is the application generating an unsupportable number of alerts in production? Monitoring coverage: Is the coverage of monitoring sufficient to restore service when things go wrong? System architecture: Is the service loosely-coupled enough to support a high rate of changes and deployments in production? Deployment process: Is there a predictable, deterministic, and sufficiently automated process to deploy code into production? Production hygiene: Is there evidence of enough good production habits that would allow production support to be managed by anyone else?