Negotiation

1st. Advance project notification and pre-estimation from partner acceptance and estimated project negotiation phase start date.

2nd. Functional Design (FD), Technical Design (TD), Graphic Design (GD) acceptance

3rd. Opening project in our management tool (Jira)

• Set up kick off meeting with team
• Give all question to the project manager (partner side)
• Creating project estimation

4th. Get estimation approval from project manager (partner side)

5th. Set up project in our management tool

• Project calendar plan creation
• Tasks creation and assignation to responsible
• All credentials and resources obtaining from our partners (database dumps, test environment, import schemas, import test data, site media etc.)

Development

1st. Reporting

• Send reports to the project manager
• Show results of each sprint on the development server
• Perform a demonstration of functionality of the sprint

2nd. Soft launch of project

• Client is allowed to access backend and may start testing application, make notes and feature requests.
• Since this phase customer may fill information that is not to be deleted from server by developers, QA etc.

3rd. Pre-live phase of the project

• Perform acceptance tests
• Integration and communication with 3rd party application testing
• Fill all content, upload all media

4th. Stress testing

• Code optimization (if needed)

Deployment

1st. Move to the live

2nd. 2 weeks bug fixing

3rd. Move project to the support phase