Lifecycle · The lifecycle cost model · Element
The end cost
What it costs to stop using the asset, net of anything recovered.
The part
What it is
Disposal is a cost more often than a recovery: data destruction, regulated materials, decommissioning, migration off a system.
For systems the largest end cost is usually migration, and it is the reason organisations keep systems well past their useful life.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.
Exit time
How long ending it takes, which is why some assets outlive their usefulness.
Duration shared type
The other elements in the lifecycle cost model
The acquisition cost
Everything spent to get the asset working.
LearnThe running cost
What the asset consumes per period once in service.
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