Life cycle management

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

• explain what each phase of the product or service life cycle is for
• explain how the needs of the product or service vary across phases of the life cycle, and how a team responds to them

2. Working

You can:

• manage the delivery of products and services that add value through different phases of the life cycle, with some support
• identify if the product or service should move to the next phase and, if it should, how to do this
• ensure the product or service is developed in line with the appropriate service standards for a phase
• use new information to adapt approaches to life cycle management

3. Practitioner

You can:

• work and consult with the right people at the right time to move through the life cycle and deliver value
• use evidence to decide when a team should continue, change direction or stop
• identify tools and techniques required at different phases of the life cycle
• guide colleagues and stakeholders through different phases of the life cycle

4. Expert

You can:

• lead and coach teams through different phases of the life cycle
• ensure effective support for the product or service and its users
• predict, prevent, mitigate and manage potential risks at different phases of the life cycle
• contribute to the assessment of other teams, providing guidance and support

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

• product life-cycle (close match)
• systems development life-cycle (close match)

Contains ESCO v1.2.1 data (https://esco.ec.europa.eu/). © European Union. Reuse authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.

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