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# 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* technology is obsolete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