===== Stage Desctiptions =====

Working back from the end-of-life for a product, I propose these necessary deliverables for the product life cycle.\\

==== Retirement ====
- **Manage waste debt**  < 2024-02-29 Shirley Tseng pushed me to consider  long term debt issues >\\
	- Output: plan for long-term management of non-reusable potentially hazardous disposed materials\\
		- Examples: EV-Batteries, Radioactive materials
- **Disposal:**    (***may be outside the scope of product developer***)
	- Output: is fundamental components that can be re-manufactured  or disposed of in environmentally safe ways
- **Re-purpose**   (***may be outside the scope of product developer***)
	- Output: components that can re-used
==== Operation ====
- **Maintenance**  (***may be outside the scope of product developer***)
	- Output: products that no longer meet customer needs
- **Service:** (***outside the scope of the business of interest***)
	- Output: customer needs (they acquired it for a purpose - to meet their needs)
==== Deployment  (Logistics Processes) ====
- **Delivery:**  (Installation, Ship-to-shelf)
	- Output: working units in customer 'control' (operational responsibility transferred to 'customer')
==== Production (Fabrication/Manufacturing Process) ====
- **Fabrication** (to include  single, multiple, mass production) ***< what about build on-site >***
	- Output: units to deploy
====  Development -Research and Product Development (Engineering Process) ====
(maybe a better word here to cover single, multiple, mass production units)
- **Development:** 
	- Output: 
		- production ready design information
		- service information
		- manufacturing information
		- operating information
		- retirement information (especially when retirement is mandated)
- **Concept:** 
	- Output: top-level product architecture with functions allocated to top-level architectural architectural elements.
==== Opportunity Acceptance (Business Process) ====
- **FDS :** 
	- Output: the description of the current state selected short-comings to address  and a description of the  desired state
- **Opportunity Selection:** 
	- Output:a description of the current state and issues in this state 
==== Opportunity Elicitation (Business Process) ====
- **Potential Project Pipeline**
	- Output: proposed, ranked set of areas to explore
- **Ideation**
	- Output: a basket of ideas to evaluate
	- INPUT: marketing ideas, strategic ideas, research ideas, user feedback, etc.