Here's the comprehensive process to complete a new web software (website and/or mobile app) project:
1. Pre-Development Discovery
- Conduct knowledge transfer
- Hold stakeholder conversations
- Set goals
- Perform market analysis
- Complete technical discovery
- Define scope
2. App Design
- Conduct User Experience (UX) research
- Create User Experience (UX) design
- Develop User Interface (UI) design
- Build interactive prototypes
- Create a design system
- Implement accessibility design
3. App Development
- Complete pre-development planning
- Perform design-to-developer handoff
- Assemble the development team
- Establish development milestones
- Create user stories
- Plan sprints
- Execute active development
- Implement sprint execution
- Ensure test coverage
- Conduct quality assurance
- Perform code review and merge to master
- Hold sprint retrospectives
- Gather wish-list development items
- Release versions
4. Launch
- Conduct beta testing (if applicable)
- Prepare for public release
- Make final preparations
- Coordinate launch day
- Monitor post-launch performance
- Gather feedback and iterate
5. Maintenance
- Establish a maintenance agreement
- Monitor errors and report bugs
- Update software versions
- Optimize performance
- Update integrations and dependencies
- Ensure compliance and security
- Provide documentation and training
- Ongoing development (if desired)
- Create product roadmaps
- Design new features
- Develop new features