# Speed up Lifecycle phases

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**🏷 Capability:** Best practices optimization
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Analyze lifecycle definitions and find opportunities to accelerate progression through phases.

## 📝 Prompt

```
Identify ways to speed up lifecycle phases without compromising reliability
```

## 💡 Tips for customizing

- Review retention policies
- Suggest reducing manual intervention steps
- Audit required steps for parallelism

## 📚 Further reading

- [Octopus documentation](https://octopus.com/docs)
- [Octopus best practices](https://octopus.com/docs/best-practices)
- [Lifecycles](https://octopus.com/docs/releases/lifecycles)