Application Retirement

Definition

Application retirement is the retirement subactivity consisting of the cohesive collection of all tasks that are primarily performed to retire an application from service.

Goals

The typical goals of application retirement are to:

• Take the application out of service.

Objectives

The typical objectives of application retirement are to:

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

Examples

Typical examples of the application retirement activity include:

• Retire a single software application.
• Retire a single system application.
• Retire multiple related applications.

Preconditions

Application Retirement typically may begin when the following conditions hold:

• An application has been selected for retirement.
• The retirement team is initially staffed and adequately trained in the application retirement tasks.

Completion Criteria

Application Retirement is typically complete when the following conditions hold:

• The application is no longer in use.
• The associated documentation has been retired (e.g., archived or properly disposed of).
• The associated components have been retired (e.g., archived, transferred to other applications, or sold).

Tasks

Application retirement typically involves the following teams performing the following application retirement tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Retirement Team:
  • Retirement Planning
  • Retirement Notification
  • Operations Termination
  • Component Archival
  • Component Disposal
  • Documentation Archival
  • Documentation Disposal

Environments

Application Retirement is typically performed using the following environment(s) and associated tools:

• Production Environment:
  • Documentation Tools
  • Configuration Management Tools

Work Products

Application retirement typically results in the production of the following work products:

• Application Application Retirement Plan
• Application Application Retirement Notification

Phases

Application retirement tasks are typically performed during the following phases:

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

Guidelines

• TBD