Specifying Initiative Life
To model component development scenarios of your portfolio without impacting the life of components, you will use initiatives and associate an object life to each of these.

The object life is a set of time periods representing the updated calendar of object life cycle states.

For more details on object life, see .
Initializing initiative life
To create an object life on an initiative:

Click the icon of the initiative and select
Initialize Object Life.
• If the object associated with the initiative already has an object life, the object life is duplicated and associated with the initiative.
• If not, the object life creation dialog box appears.

For more details on object life creation, see .
To view life of an initiative:

Open the initiative properties pages and select the
Object Life page.
Updating object life from an initiative
The different component development scenarios of a portfolio are studied through initiatives connected to one or several scenarios. When a scenario is adopted, you can automatically update the life of objects associated with portfolio initiatives from the initiatives.
To update object life from initiative life:

Click the icon of the initiative and select
Validate Transformation.
The object life is updated from the initiative life.