Development planning
The key objective of the development phase is to a scalable, maintainable, and high-performing application. The next thing, after getting the development environment and the version control strategy finalized, is defining development plan and ground rules for the development team. The following are some basic guidelines and rules that need to be established by the solution architect and the project manager before the development.
Be agile
Irrespective of methodology selected for implementation, we recommend development phase to be executed in CRP or agile methodology. These methodology uses a series of Sprints to deliver implementation capabilities in incremental steps.
The following are guidelines for the CRP or agile methodology:
- For large implementation projects, create an implementation team for each functional area, for example, finance, supply chain, warehouse management, retail, and so on.
- Define Sprint cycle in full week increments. It is common to use 2 to 4...