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5.25 Plan for a digital product or service’s care and end-of-life

Business Strategy And Product Management

Produce documentation to ensure that when a project is shut down, visitors are made aware of what will happen to their data.

Criteria

  • End-of-life care: Human-testable
    Provide clear, documented end-of-life guidelines that include data disposal, archiving, file deletion, and other relevant guidance.
    • A 10-Step Checklist For the End-of-Life of Your Product
    • AFNOR Spec 5.2.6 (French)
    • End of life
    • GPF – General Policy Framework (PDF) – 1.6 – Strategy (Data Collection)
    • GPF – General Policy Framework (PDF) – 2.7 – Specifications (Maintainence & Decomissioning)
    • GPF – General Policy Framework (PDF) – 7.2 – Back-End (Data Retention)
    • GR491 – 4-8048 – End-Of-Life
    • GreenIT – 085 – Have an end of life strategy for the website
    • GreenIT – 4031 – Set up a content end-of-life plan
    • How can we keep domains working long after our death?
    • What Does End-of-life (EOL) Mean For Your Website Platform?
    • What is Your Data Disposal Strategy?

Benefits

  • Economic
    Removing redundancy in the product or service can generate savings in hosting, security costs, and other third-party subscriptions.
  • Environment
    Planning for end-of-life reduces long-term environmental impacts after a digital product or service is no longer needed. This eliminates waste and frees up resources.
  • Performance
    Removing unnecessary features, functions, and data of a service improves performance and resilience as the resources which were utilizing data will be better spent on more popular functionality, and the gains made from their elimination will be felt in terms of emissions through saved development time.
  • Privacy
    Incorporating clear end-of-life policies that include a user’s right to be forgotten will benefit the user by explaining how you enforce data protection and comply with legislation.
  • Security
    Providing regular maintenance, updates, and care on outdated software and data can significantly reduce security risks.

GRI

  • Materials: Medium
  • Energy: Medium
  • Water: Medium
  • Emissions: Medium

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