Life Cycle Stages

Life cycle refers to the distinct stages of application development and upgrade. In the context of this document, life cycle refers to the application life cycle changes, focusing especially on initial release of the application, additional releases, and patches to the production system.

This is not a comprehensive description of the application development life cycle, but focuses on important information for making decisions about whether to create a new release, or simply patch the production system.

Life Cycle Development for Milestone Development
Life Cycle Environment Milestones
Life Cycle Development for Patches
Life Cycle Environment for Patches