Product Lifecycle

Products are created and managed in the context of a product line and consist of any number of features.

The Product lifecycle includes these states:

Preliminary

In the Preliminary state, a Product Manager, System Engineer, Software Engineer, or Senior Design Engineer creates a product, then promotes it to the Product Management state.

Product Management

In the Product Management state, a Product Manager or System Engineer adds features, marketing related rules, images, and reference documents.

Design Engineering

In the Design Engineering state, a Design Engineer or Senior Design Engineer adds parts, and engineering related rules, reviews the structure and rules of the product.

Review

In the Review state, a Product Manager, System Engineer, Design Engineer, or Senior Design Engineer performs a final review. A check trigger prevents the promotion to the Release state if all the related features and parts are not in a release state. A validation of all rules is done to ensure that no features have been deleted which would make the rule invalid.

Release

In the Release state, a Product Manager updates the pricing, as needed. A trigger is fired that promotes all rules connected to the product to the Release state.

Obsolete

In the Obsolete state, a Product Manager inactivates the use of the product and the product is no longer sold.