History: Starting development

You have all the specifications signed-off by your client, you know the deadline and your team is ready to undertake coding, so cool!

It's perhaps a good idea to set up the specifications somewhere in a single place where both client and developers can see it (online platform, website...) as they might change during the development.

Set up the environment

• Create the project in your versioning system (with the usual convention documented in developer documentation) by creating a new case in the Sysadmin bugtracker project or, if you do it yourself, you should have some automatic scripts to do that for you (documented in your internal bugtracker project),
• Setup a UAT platform (and maybe start the process of production installation as well),
• Write the project documentation (according to technical project documentation template) in your bugtracker including all information needed by developers with a link to the specifications.

Make the resources working

Identify and break down the tasks, enter them in your bugtracker and assign developers and designers to it.
Specify:

• Priority
• Status (=new)
• Due date
• Invoicing type (for contractor)
• Estimated time
• The task and what are the deliverable (documentation, code, tests, how to run the code...)