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Retirement milestone (UPDM - DoDAF aliases)
Creation
To create a Retirement Milestone:
• From an Architectural Description or Service Description: right-click the Architectural Description or Service Description, point to New, point to DoDAF, point to Project, and then click Retirement Milestone.
On the Select Type dialog, create or select the Project Milestone Type that is the classifier for the Retirement Milestone.
• From a PV-3 Actual Project Definition:
◦ Click the Retirement Milestone toolbar button, and then click in free space on the diagram. On the Select Type dialog, create or select the Project Milestone Type element that is the classifier of the Retirement Milestone.
◦ From an appropriate Modeler pane, locate the Project Milestone Type element that you want to use as the classifier of the Retirement Milestone, and then drag that Project Milestone Type to free space on the diagram. From the dialog, select Retirement Milestone, and then click OK.
After creating a Retirement Milestone you can set its date and values: right-click the a Retirement Milestone, point to Set, and then click Date or Values as appropriate.
You can convert a Retirement Milestone to a Project Milestone, Deployed Milestone, Increment Milestone or No Longer Used Milestone: right-click the Retirement Milestone, point to Convert To, and then click the required command.
Appearance
When shown on a PV-3 Actual Project Definition, a Retirement Milestone appears as follows:
When shown on a PV-2 Project Timelines, a Retirement Milestone appears as follows:
Relationships
The following relationships are of importance to a Retirement Milestone:
• Milestone Sequence relationships link a Retirement Milestone to the milestones that are predecessors and successors to that Retirement Milestone. The predecessor and successor elements can be Project Milestone, Deployed Milestone, Increment Milestone, No Longer Used Milestone, and Retirement Milestone elements.
The following sections provide information about how a Retirement Milestone is used in the model.
Create a Retirement Milestone from
• Architectural Description
• PV-3 Actual Project Definition
• Service Description
Create from a Retirement Milestone
Only the UPDM elements that can be created from all UPDM elements ( Representation, Definition, Information, and Metadata).
Shown on these diagrams, tables and matrices
In addition to the AV-2 Integrated Dictionary and StdV-1 Standards Profile, which can show all UPDM elements:
• CV-3 Capability Phasing
• PV-2 Project Timelines
• PV-3 Actual Project Definition
• SV-8 Systems Evolution Description
UPDM writeable properties
The following writeable properties are available on the Retirement Milestone tab of a Retirement Milestone element's Property Pages:
• URI