# Retirement / Continuation Decision

Make and record a lifecycle decision: continue, improve, harvest, pivot, pause, or retire.
This decision requires human judgment informed by evidence. No automated threshold or formula
replaces context and accountability.

## Feature Identity

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Feature / capability name | |
| Decision date | |
| Decision-maker (name and role) | |
| Prior decision (if any) and date | |

## Evidence Considered

| Source | Date | Key findings |
|---|---|---|
| Outcome review | | |
| Assumption ledger | | |
| Feature health record | | |
| Other (specify) | | |

## Decision

**Decision:** (Continue / Improve / Harvest / Pivot / Pause / Retire)

**Rationale:** (Why this decision, not the other five? Cite the specific evidence that drove the
choice. If retiring, explain why harvest or pivot was rejected. If continuing, explain why
improve or harvest was not selected.)

**Context considered:**
- Product and market context:
- User base and impact:
- Available alternatives for users:
- Business priorities and resource constraints:
- Strategic alignment:

**Risks of this decision:**
- If we are wrong, what breaks?
- What would change our mind?

**Risks of NOT making this decision (status quo):**
- What deteriorates if we defer?

## Accountable Human Judgment

**Decision-maker:** (name and role — must be a human, not an automated system or threshold)

**I confirm that I have reviewed the evidence above and made this decision based on my
judgment of the product, market, user, and business context.**

**Sign-off date:**

## If Retire: Sunset Triggers

| Trigger | Date / condition |
|---|---|
| Deprecation announcement | |
| End-of-life (last day of full support) | |
| End-of-support (last day of limited support) | |
| Removal (feature removed from product) | |
| Internal cleanup complete | |
| Learning closure recorded | |

**Sunset plan:** (link to [sunset-plan.md](sunset-plan.md) or fill here)

## If Not Retire: Follow-Up

| Action | Owner | Due date |
|---|---|---|
| Next review date | | |
| Metrics to monitor | | |
| Triggers that would change the decision | | |

## Routing

- [ ] Decision routed to roadmap (product-roadmapping-and-portfolio)
- [ ] If retire: sunset plan routed to customer-success (conditional-customer-success)
- [ ] Learning routed to retained learning record