Requirement Phase:

□ Develop the PRD (Product Requirement Document)
□ Derive the SRS (Software Requirement Specification) from the PRD

Design & Planning Phase:

□ Identify the required Use Cases and produce the High-level Use Case Specification Document for the SRS.
□ Create the Detailed Design Specification for the Use Cases.
□ Customer Sign off
□ Setup the Source Control Environment (SVN, CVS, AccuRev, ClearCase)
□ Setup the Defect Tracking Environment (JIRA)
□ Select the PSR Tools (Load Runner, OpenSTA)
□ Setup the continuous integration build environment (Quick Build)

Project Management Phase:

□ Project Management Phase
□ Create detailed estimates
□ Identify Important Milestones.
□ Resource Planning
□ Create detailed project plan
□ Discuss the project plan with customer and sign off
□ Daily/Weekly/Monthly client updates
□ Update Project Plans on a Weekly Basis
□ Adjust project plans according to new additions
□ Inform Client on project plan changes
□ Triage, Prioritize and Assign Defects to engineering.

Engineering Phase:

□ Start Implementation of Use Cases according to the Project plan
□ Formulate the Pier Review, Technical Review and Feature Review Strategy
□ Setup the Unit Test and Integration Test Strategy
□ Setup Engineering Integration environment.
□ Provide Engineering Drops for each completed Milestone.
□ Smoke test the engineering milestones and certify it
□ Move on to next milestone
□ Defect fixes.

QA Phase:

□ Start Developing the QA test Plans for each Mile Stone.
□ Setup QA Integration environments.
□ Build and Deploy QA Drop when Engineering Drop Certification is complete
□ Deploy the Application to the QA Integration Machine.
□ Start executing the designed QA Test cases that belong to this milestone.
□ Log, defects found through the Defect Tracking System and assign them back to project management.
□ QA Certify the completed Milestone (once every feature for that particular milestone is completed as per the SRS).
□ Iterate this phase until there are no defects.

PSR Phase:

□ Develop the Performance Scalability Regression testing strategy for identified milestones.
□ Setup PSR Environment for Performance, Scalability and Regression Testing of Important Milestones.
□ Install Certified QA Drops for completed milestones in the PSR integration Server
□ Perform PSR testing
□ Report Defects through the defect tracking system
□ Optimize the performance and generate PSR reports.
□ PSR Certify the Completed Milestone.
□ Once All Milestones for complete PSR Certify the Application

Release Phase:

□ Release QA and PSR Certified Milestone to the customer
□ Get Sign off on the milestone released
□ Release QA and PSR Certified Application once all milestones are met
□ Customer Sign off on the Release

Project Postmortem Phase:

□ Conduct Project Postmortem with customer
□ Identify Improvement areas
□ Escalate any issues
□ Refine the process to address the issues if there are any
□ Conduct a customer satisfaction survey