Life cycle

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

Science and academia

 * Biological life cycle, the sequence of life stages that an organism undergoes from conception to reproduction
 * Life-cycle hypothesis, in economics
 * Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, in psychoanalysis

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
 * New product development, the process of bringing a new product to market
 * Life-cycle assessment, the analysis of the environmental impacts associated with a product
 * Technology life cycle, the commercial gain of a product

Software

 * Software development life cycle
 * Software release life cycle
 * Object lifetime of an object in object-oriented programming
 * Program lifecycle phases are the stages a computer program undergoe, from initial creation to deployments.

Systems engineering

 * Systems development life cycle, a process for planning, creating, testing, and deploying, maintaining, and ultimate disposal of system in all phases of existence

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

Other uses

 * Āśrama (stage), life stages in Hinduism
 * 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
 * Records life-cycle, the treatment of records from their creation to archiving or destruction