Retirement Phase

Definition

Retirement Phase

the application life cycle phase during which the application is retired from use and its components are either disposed of or else archived for future use

Goals

The typical goals of the Retirement Phase are to:

• Take an application out of service.

Objectives

To meet the above goals, the objectives of the retirement phase are to:

• Cease operations/usage in an orderly manner.
• Retire any assoicated documentation.
• Retire any associated data, hardware, and software components.

Preconditions

The following preconditions must be satisfied before the retirement phase can successfully begin:

• TBD

Completion Criteria

Typically, the following postconditions must be met for the successful completion of the retirement phase:

• TBD

Work Products

During the retirment phase, the following work products are typically produced and delivered:

• Management Set:
  • Complete Retirement Phase Management Plan
  • Complete Weekly Status Report
• Risk Managment Set:
  • Risk Management Plan
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Monitoring Report
• Retirements Set:
  • TBD

Milestones

The typical milestones of a retirement phase of an application development project include:

1. TBD
   • TBD

Teams

The retirement phase activities are performed by the following teams, which typically overlap in terms of the individuals playing the component roles:

• Project Management Team
• Retirement Team

Activities And Tasks

During the retirement phase, the following activities (decomposed into the following tasks) occur in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and timeboxed manner:

• Project Management Activity:
  • Cost Management
  • Communications Management
  • Delivery Management
  • Management Planning
  • Personnel Management
  • Relationship Management
  • Resource Management
  • Schedule Management
  • Scope Management
• Configuration Management Activity:
  • Configuration Management Planning
  • Configuration Identification
  • Version Control
  • Configuration Control
  • Configuration Status Reporting
  • Configuration Auditing
• Risk Management Activity:
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Control
  • Risk Identification
  • Risk Management Planning
  • Risk Monitoring
• Retirement:
  • Retirement Planning
  • Retirement Notification
  • Operations Termination
  • Component Archival
  • Component Disposal
  • Documentation Archival
  • Documentation Disposal

Guidelines

• TBD