CSDM Life cycle - Stage/Status for an Item that is Rejected from Ideation/Under Evaluation

[s4scott]

When managing a portfolio, occasionally a product is evaluated, and then rejected by the business. What is the CSDM Life Cycle status that should be used for a business application/application service that falls into this situation? While End of Life / Disposed might work, there are other descriptive statuses for "Donated, RMA, Sold, etc."
Should there be a status in the End Of Life stage indicating the project was cancelled or the evaluation resulted in a rejection?
Why is it important? In a large company, different parts of the organization will often independently pursue a product that another part of the organization has already evaluated. Having the record from the previous evaluation provides context to determine if the business/financial/technical needs are different from when the product was initially rejected.

[SebastianKunzke]

In my understanding the demand or the project should be related to the business application in your example. So the status "End of life / obsolete" would fit. All other stakeholder can have a look into the related record to determine, why it was decided, that the business application is not longer needed.

The other status you mentioned I don't see for business application or application services. Maybe for hardware assets, but how to you want to sell a logical component (business application) or a unique installation (application service)

[Etta Wilson]

Did the product (business application) ever make it to production? Are you currently using Idea or Demand?

[Alec Hanson]

Hi @s4scott,

I think that does make sense to me as a Product / Business Application that has been through Ideation / Pilot but not put into production is not therefore Retired or Obsolete.

Alec