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Data Retention & Deletion Controls. @data-retention-controls
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Last review 2026-08-14
What you get
the numbers that matter≈ 2 weeks
signed to first PR
96%
engagements renewed
96%
to your stack & domain
Implement policy-driven retention, archival, user deletion, and downstream data-erasure workflows across your systems.
How this operator works
every way of working, already decidedOwns the system, not the ticket
Takes end-to-end ownership of a service or surface. Design, delivery, on-call. And is measured on outcomes, not hours.
Embedded, async-first, instrumented
Works inside your repos, your CI and your rituals. Daily written standups, decisions logged. No status-meeting tax.
Runbooks, canaries, reversible deploys
Every change gated and reversible. Incidents get a timeline and a postmortem; nothing ships without a rollback.
Plugged into your Slack & rituals
Joins standups and retros, reports weekly against the goal. You get an operator, not a queue.
Brings a pre-wired stack or adopts yours
Infrastructure and observability as code by default. No bespoke setup tax to absorb.
Scoped, gated, reversible
Week-1 shadow, week-2 ownership, swap on request inside the trial window. No long-tail handover risk.
Overview
Every regulation ends in the same engineering question: can you actually delete this data, everywhere, on schedule? This sprint implements retention and deletion as running systems — policy-driven retention windows, automated archival, user-initiated deletion, and downstream erasure that propagates to replicas, warehouses, backup policy, and third parties.
Policies come from your legal and privacy owners; the sprint makes them executable and verifiable, with reporting that shows what was deleted, when, and where. The finish state: retention and deletion workflows live across the agreed systems, with verification reports compliance can rely on.
What's included
Data inventory & policy mapping
Every store inventoried and mapped to your retention policies, so each dataset has a defined lifecycle instead of an indefinite one.
Retention & archival automation
Retention windows enforced automatically — data aged out, archived, or destroyed on schedule, with the schedule in code.
Deletion & erasure workflows
User-initiated and policy-driven deletion that propagates: replicas, warehouse, caches, backup policy, and third-party processors.
Verification & reporting
Reports showing what was deleted, when, and where — the evidence layer compliance teams actually need.
How it works
- Scope. Inventory the data stores; map the policies to systems; agree the workflow set.
- Build. Implement the retention, archival, deletion, and propagation workflows.
- Handover. Verification run with reports, an operational runbook, and a compliance walkthrough.
Part of every Delivery Plan
The Data Retention & Deletion Controls is a menu item on the Scrums.com delivery catalog, available at every plan tier. Add it to your plan backlog and your delivery team schedules it like any other item — scoped, tracked, and reported through the SEOP. See Delivery Plan Tiers.
FAQs
Who writes the retention policies?
Your legal and privacy owners define the windows and obligations; the sprint advises on feasibility and makes the agreed policies executable. Engineering does not invent retention law.
What about data in backups?
Backups get policy treatment: retention-bounded cycles and documented expiry, which is the accepted pattern regulators recognize — plus exclusion or crypto-erasure where the platform supports it.
How does this relate to GDPR work?
This item builds the ongoing lifecycle machinery. If you also have specific subject-rights gaps — consent, access, portability — the GDPR Engineering Remediation item closes those; the two share the same data map.
What's included
in every engagement · no add-onsTrack record
deployments on real systems · anonymized| Sector | System | Outcome | Span | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fintech | payments-core ledger | 99.97% achieved | 14 mo | ● complete |
| Commerce | checkout platform | −38% incident rate | 9 mo | ● complete |
| Health SaaS | data plane | 0 SEV1 in 6 mo | 11 mo | ● active |
| Logistics | routing engine | zero-downtime cutover | 7 mo | ● complete |
| AI infra | inference cluster | p99 −120 ms | 5 mo | ● active |
Works inside your stack
surfaces this operator binds to| Surface | Binding | Direction | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source control | github.com/<org> | reviews + writes | OIDC |
| CI / CD | scm-flow · deploy-service | gates deploys | OIDC |
| Observability | otlp://collector:4317 | metrics + alerts | mTLS |
| Comms | slack://<workspace> | standups, incidents | SSO |
| Secrets | vault://scrums/op/<id> | short-lived creds | SPIFFE |
| On-call | pagerduty://<org> | primary / secondary | API token |
Boundaries
what to deploy insteadScoped to this discipline. For an adjacent capability, compose a second operator into the squad. compose →
Not a fractional advisory engagement. For advisory-only, contact platform@scrums.com.
Deployments
the only social proof we publish402deploys
across 38 organizations
+24 last 30 days · median age 11.4 mo · retention 96%
Pricing
one number · one footnoteAvailable at all Delivery Plan Tiers →
All-in: the operator, delivery manager and replacement guarantee. No recruiter fee, no markup surprises.
Final pricing computed at deploy from your committed envelope, region and account tier.
FAQ
common questionsHow is Data Retention & Deletion Controls priced?
Pricing is shown to signed-in accounts. Sign in to view the rate; pricing is computed from your engagement scope, region and account tier.
Is Data Retention & Deletion Controls available now?
Yes. It is published and deployable directly from the Scrums.com catalog.
Can a Data Retention & Deletion Controls deployment be reversed?
Yes. Deployments are reversible with a one-click swap inside the trial window.
Who provides Data Retention & Deletion Controls?
Scrums.com, vetted by the Scrums.com platform.
How it compares
vs other delivery| Option | From | Stack | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Retention & Deletion Controls · this one | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · outcome-driven-sprints · compliance | ● available |
| Codebase Quality Audit | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · code-audit · maintenance | ● available |
| Product Discovery Sprint | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · discovery · workshop | ● available |
| Clickable Product Prototype | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · prototyping · design | ● available |
Commonly deployed with
more deliveryRun this scope on your Delivery Plan
Core costs Was $8,000£6,700R140,000 now $4,500£3,750R79,000/month for one active workstream. Your scope sets the delivery schedule and the total cost. You can use the same plan for your other development work.
Add this scope to your backlog. Your delivery owner confirms the scope with you, and the team delivers it.
One plan for your software backlog.
Work is scoped and delivered within your plan’s capacity. Priorities can change; additional parallel workstreams require more capacity.