Scaffold / Software Development Life Cycle

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"Clearly defined and distinct work phases which are used to plan for, design, build, test, and deliver information systems."

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• Discover

  Research and determine the project's current situation and needs.

• Define

  Establish the scope of the project, planning, and project methodologies.

• Design

  Design using the Style Guide and other approved brand identity assets. Technical and functional design decisions are made in this stage.

• Develop

  Coding. Test it and repeat until development sins can be forgiven. Write Documentation.

• Deploy

  Deployment runs concurrently with Development.

• Repeat - Iterate - Make Better

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Notes:

1. A refactor, or scrubbing, should occur at the end of each phase to ensure that the final product delivery is not a bloated beast of obfuscated code and unused 'best practices'.
2. Never sacrifice making something excellent for the sake of MVP.