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  2. Technology life cycle - Wikipedia

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    The technology life cycle ( TLC) describes the commercial gain of a product through the expense of research and development phase, and the financial return during its "vital life". Some technologies, such as steel, paper or cement manufacturing, have a long lifespan (with minor variations in technology incorporated with time) while in other ...

  3. Technology adoption life cycle - Wikipedia

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    Rogers bell curve. The technology adoption lifecycle is a sociological model that describes the adoption or acceptance of a new product or innovation, according to the demographic and psychological characteristics of defined adopter groups. The process of adoption over time is typically illustrated as a classical normal distribution or "bell ...

  4. Gartner hype cycle - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Gartner hype cycle is a graphical presentation developed, used and branded by the American research, advisory and information technology firm Gartner to represent the maturity, adoption, and social application of specific technologies. The hype cycle claims to provide a graphical and conceptual presentation of the maturity of emerging ...

  5. Technological change - Wikipedia

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    Technological change (TC) or technological development is the overall process of invention, innovation and diffusion of technology or processes. In essence, technological change covers the invention of technologies (including processes) and their commercialization or release as open source via research and development (producing emerging technologies), the continual improvement of technologies ...

  6. Technology readiness level - Wikipedia

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    A Technology Readiness Level Calculator was developed by the United States Air Force. This tool is a standard set of questions implemented in Microsoft Excel that produces a graphical display of the TRLs achieved. This tool is intended to provide a snapshot of technology maturity at a given point in time.

  7. Systems development life cycle - Wikipedia

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    Systems development life cycle. In systems engineering, information systems and software engineering, the systems development life cycle ( SDLC ), also referred to as the application development life cycle, is a process for planning, creating, testing, and deploying an information system. [1] The SDLC concept applies to a range of hardware and ...

  8. Technology roadmap - Wikipedia

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    A technology roadmap is a flexible planning schedule to support strategic and long-range planning, by matching short-term and long-term goals with specific technology solutions. [1] [2] It is a plan that applies to a new product or process and may include using technology forecasting or technology scouting to identify suitable emerging ...

  9. Agile software development - Wikipedia

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    Outlines. v. t. e. Agile software development is the mindset for developing software that derives from values agreed upon by The Agile Alliance, a group of 17 software practitioners in 2001. As documented in their Manifesto for Agile Software Development the practitioners value: [1] Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.