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Specifications    ODD#12    

Does the target product have a limited lifespan ?

Recommendation 

Lifecycle Management

B People

A Planet

A Prosperity

Difficulty

*

Priority

Medium

Récurrence

Once

Tests

Does the product have an "expiration date"?

Precisions

The services are created to fulfil a specfic task. In a very changing and unpredictable technical and economical environment, they rarely have an infinite lifespan. It is useful from a Sustainable IT point of view to decide beforehand on the operation's duration of the service, in order to avoid maintaining it when the object of the service no longer exists.

Use Case

Project framing highlights project lifespan

GreenIT 85

Additional elements

Operational issues related to the project

Posts

Rule for assessing the level of compliance of the criterion

Formalized = 100 ; Planned = 75 ; Identified = 50 ; Ignored = 0 / 100

Life cycle

Fin de Vie

11 other criteria related to the recommendation: Prepare the monitoring of the project life cycle and performance indicators / Sustainable IT profit

Recommendation Essential

economic process

In the purchasing process (Call for tenders) are Sustainable IT commitment requirements asked of external service providers ?

Recommendation Essential

Lifecycle Management

Do all specified data and procedures have end-of-life information ?

Recommendation

Production

Have you identified performance indicators for life cycle monitoring ?

Recommendation

Technology

Is software updates impacts on the obsolescence of equipment calculated ?

Recommendation

Technology

Is current user equipment assessed ?

Recommendation

Planning

Do the project reviews take into account the validations of Sustainable IT requirements ?

Recommendation

Planning

During each new production launch, is a review of compliance with Sustainable IT issues carried out ?

Advice

project objectives

Are the load, benefits, risks supervised ?

Advice

project objectives

Is a key risk monitoring plan deployed ?

Advice

project objectives

Is a gain in notoriety and capitalization associated with the Sustainable IT aspects of the project ?

Recommendation

Lifecycle Management

Do secondary functions also have a lower impact on the environmental footprint ?