Make green mean deployable
Define what a green build must prove before a team can treat it as a release candidate.
The move: define the promise behind green. Every pipeline has an implicit definition of green. Strong teams make it explicit. Green should mean the exact version under discussion has passed the checks that matter for the next decision. For early CI, that may be compile plus unit tests. For a deployable release candidate, it usually includes packaging, configuration, database compatibility, security checks, and enough integration evidence to trust the artifact. The trap A team can improve the color of the dashboard without improving deployability. If deployment scripts live outside version control, if environment variables are copied by hand, or if…
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