The State of Maryland SDLC includes ten phases, during which defined work products and documents are created, reviewed, refined, and approved. The final phase occurs when the system is disposed of and the business need is either eliminated or transferred to other systems. The tasks and work products for each phase are described in detail in the SDLC Manual. However, not every project will require that the phases be subsequently executed. The SDLC and associated templates may be tailored within an agency to accommodate the unique aspects of a project as long as the resulting approach remains consistent with the primary objective to deliver a quality system. SDLC phases may overlap and projects can follow an evolutionary development strategy that provides for incremental delivery of products and/or subsystems.