What is the purpose of the Optimize Phase?

• A. Release new features to production
• B. Sustain and enhance an application
• C. Define goals of the project
• D. Review backlog and plan iterations

Answer: (B)

The Optimize Phase focuses on sustaining and improving a solution after it’s live. It’s about keeping the application healthy, delivering ongoing value, and making enhancements based on real usage, feedback, and changing needs. In this phase you monitor performance, address defects, tune configurations, refine processes, and add enhancements or optimizations to meet evolving requirements. Deployment or releasing new features typically aligns with the activation of changes into production, which is separate from ongoing optimization. Defining goals happens earlier in planning and initiation, and reviewing the backlog plus planning iterations is part of ongoing delivery rather than the primary focus of sustaining and improving a live solution.