Retirement

Purpose

Retirement is used when a service, product, component, or process is no longer needed, no longer cost-effective, or is being replaced.

Retirement Triggers

Retirement may be considered when:

• users no longer need the service

• usage is too low to justify ongoing cost

• a better service has replaced it

• technology is obsolete

• security risk is unacceptable

• contractual support has ended

• customer strategy has changed

Retirement Activities

Typical retirement activities include:

• user impact assessment

• customer approval

• data retention review

• migration planning

• communication plan

• archive plan

• access removal

• supplier exit

• decommissioning

• final reporting

Retirement Outputs

Retirement should produce:

• retirement decision record

• impact assessment

• migration or transition plan

• data handling record

• decommissioning evidence

• final acceptance or closure record