• 25    Introduction
• 25.1    Projects with proposals
• 25.2    Project-wide decisions and reviews
• 26    Project preparation
• 27    Project support
• 28    Development
• 28.1    What is development?
• 28.2    The development phase
• 28.3    Purpose development
• 28.4    Concept development
• 28.5    Development methodology
• 28.6    System feature development
• 28.7    Recursion to component development
• 28.8    Feature development variations
• 28.9    Acceptance
• 29    Operation
• 29.1    System production
• 29.2    System production examples
• 29.3    System deployment
• 29.4    System deployment examples
• 29.5    System operation
• 29.6    System operation examples
• 29.7    System evolution
• 29.8    System evolution examples
• 29.9    System retirement
• 29.10    System retirement examples
• 30    Project ending
• 30.1    Project cancellation
• 31    Using the reference life cycle
• 31.1    Meeting life cycle principles
• 31.2    Relation to NASA life cycle

A reference life cycle pattern for projects. It models what a full life cycle contains, and can be the basis for developing an actual project’s life cycle.