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The product lifecycle describes a product's phases from idea and development through launch, operation, and end-of-life. It structures decisions, responsibilities, and handovers across the product value stream. Organizations use it to govern investment, release planning, support and to optimize total lifecycle costs. It covers strategic and operational persp…
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The product lifecycle describes phases from problem discovery and development through launch and growth to maturity, retirement, or replacement.
The model combines lifecycle thinking from marketing and economics with product-development and operations practices; real products rarely move through phases in a strictly linear way.
Align decisions with the product’s current situation: explore the problem and solution, validate value, build usage, scale value and operations, then plan renewal or closure. Each phase changes goals, risks, investment, and useful metrics.
A period with its own situation, objectives, and decision logic.
An evidence-based decision to fund, lead, or measure a product differently.
Planned replacement, migration, or discontinuation with responsibility for affected users.
The lifecycle helps adapt expectations to a product’s situation. It prevents early validation, scaling, and retirement from being managed with identical criteria.
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