This phase provides for the business and technical personnel to evaluate how well the project was executed, and to quickly request changes once the production baseline has been established.

This final phase of the systems development life cycle is required to achieve the following objectives:

	Effectively transition the solution to the receiving organization
	Ensure the organization has a record of all critical design, development, production support, Infrastructure, and security data on all components of the solution
	Track and ensure knowledge has been effectively transferred to all sustainment and support personnel as well as end-users
	Obtain formal acceptance of the system from the customer
	Capture both project and product oriented lessons learned during the project
	Implement a process to capture new customer's desired enhancements
	Implement an effective Disaster Recovery Program
	Implement a process to retire the solution when the system no longer meets organizational needs