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+# : Design simplified system lifecycle for example system in tutorials
+
+Date: 10/31/2023
+
+## Status
+
+Proposed
+
+## Context
+
+We wish to reduce friction encountered by community members learning security automation with OSCAL through tutorials produced by the OSCAL team.
+A series of OSCAL security automation tutorials would need to be centered around and driven by some system lifecycle, such as the implied lifecycle in NIST 800-37 Risk Management Framework or ISO/IEC 27005.
+However, adopting a complex real-world lifecycle in the tutorials would have several disadvantages:
+
+- Complex system lifecycles add overhead that may not be relevant to the tutorial at hand.
+- Endorsing a particular lifecycle may incorrectly signal to the reader that OSCAL can only be used with that lifecycle.
+- The use of a real-world lifecycle could invite disagreement over the particulars of the lifecycle that are not relevant to the tutorials.
+
+Summarized, the lifecycle should serve the tutorials and not the other way around.
+
+*Note: this ADR was created as part of a work item for [OSCAL#1893](https://github.com/usnistgov/OSCAL/issues/1893).*
+
+## Decision
+
+The NIST OSCAL team should use a simplified lifecycle in its tutorials.
+The lifecycle will focus on the security automation.
+
+This document will only contain minimally-viable details of the lifecycle.
+
+### Proposed Lifecycle
+
+The proposed lifcycle will be evocative of a stripped-down RMF or ISO 27005 SDLC, discarding and simplifying steps that are not immediately relevant to a tutorial.
+
+The individual tutorials may include asides on how a given process maps to other processes such as RMF.
+
+|RISK MGMT | Select | Implement | Assess |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| DEVELOPMENT |	Design | Develop | Test |
+
+The proposed lifecycle collapses "prepare", "categorize", and "select" into ***design***, renames "implement" into ***develop***, collapses "assess" and "authorize" into ***test***, and removes "monitor".
+
+The steps of the RMF are all important and deserve individual consideration, but are not the subject of the tutorials.
+
+## Consequences
+
+This decision will affect tutorials written in the future, particularly tutorials surrounding the fictional [example system](https://github.com/usnistgov/OSCAL/issues/1892).