4 posts on the retiring stage of the lifecycle.
Every behaviour you ship, even the ones you never meant to promise, becomes somebody's load-bearing wall. You do not get to just knock it down.
retiring
The ugly working system you want to delete is a scar map of every wound it has survived, and you are about to throw the map away.
planning operating retiring
Two functions can match to the last character and still be two different things.
implementing reviewing retiring
Every other material gets lighter when you take something away. Software is the one that fights you for the privilege.
retiring planning