Retirement Plan

Definition

The retirement plan is the retirement work product that documents plans for performing retirement on an endeavor.

Objectives

The typical objectives of the retirement plan are to formally document:

• The types of retirement that are planned:
  • Application Retirement:
  • Contact Center Retirement.
  • Data Center Retirement.
  • Environment Retirement
  • Data Component Retirement.
  • Hardware Component Retirement.
  • Software Component Retirement.

Benefits

The typical benefits of the retirement plan include:

• It helps ensure that all required retirement takes place.

Contents

The typical contents of the retirement plan include:

• Retirement Overview:
  • Overall Retirement Objectives
  • Types of Retirement
• TBD:
  • TBD
• Retirement Schedule
• Appendices:
  • Major Issues
  • TBDs
  • Assumptions

Stakeholders

The typical stakeholders of the retirement plan include:

• Producer: Retirement Team
• Evaluators:
  • Technical Leader
• Approvers: Project Management Team
• Maintainers: Retirement Team
• Users:
  • Retirement Team
  • Project Team

Phases

• Business Strategy: Not Applicable
• Business Optimization: Not Applicable
• Initiation: Not Applicable
• Construction: Not Applicable
• Delivery: Not Applicable
• Usage: Not Applicable
• Retirment: Completed

Preconditions

The retirement plan typically can be started if the following preconditions hold:

• The retirement team is adequately staffed and trained in retirement planning.
• The retirment phase has started.

Inputs

Retirement plans typically have the following inputs:

• Work Products:
  • TBD
• Stakeholders:
  • TBD

Guidelines

• There is no need for this work product unless something is being retired.

Conventions

Retirement plans are typically constrained by the following conventions:

• Content and Format Standard
• MS Word Template
• XML DTD Template
• Inspection Checklist

Examples

• Example Retirement Plan