Life cycle

Life cycle, life-cycle, or lifecycle may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Life Cycles (The Word Alive album), 2012
• Life Cycle (Dave Holland album), 1983
• Life Cycle (Sieges Even album), 1988
• Life Cycle (Whit Dickey album), 2001
• Life Cycle (Sakerock album), 2005
• Lifecycle (album), a 2008 album by Yellowjackets

Science and technology

• Biological life cycle, the sequence of life stages that an organism undergoes from conception to reproduction
• Life-cycle hypothesis, in economics
• Program lifecycle phase, a stage that a computer program undergoes, from creation to deployment
• Software release life cycle
• Systems development life cycle, a process for planning, creating, testing, and deploying, maintaining, and ultimate disposal of system in all phases of existence

Business

• Enterprise life cycle, the process of changing a business enterprise
• Project life cycle
• Product lifecycle, the stages in the lifespan of a commercial or consumer product
• Records life-cycle, the treatment of records from their creation to archiving or destruction
• Life-cycle assessment, the analysis of the environmental impacts associated with a product
• Technology life cycle, the commercial gain of a product

Other uses

• Jewish life cycle, a series of traditions associated with major life events in Judaism
• Life cycle ritual, a ritual to mark certain events in an individual's lifetime

See also

• Āśrama (stage), life stages in Hinduism
• Adobe LiveCycle, a server software product used to build applications that automate business processes
• Cycle of Life (disambiguation)
• Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, in psychoanalysis
• Jeevana Chakra (lit. 'Life Cycle'), a 1985 Indian Telugu-language film
• Life history (disambiguation)
• New product development, the process of bringing a new product to market
• Object lifetime, of an object in object-oriented programming