Technical practices

Development Kickoff - Full day, Whole Team

Starting a few weeks after any needed design starts. Entire team is present, including design, client, pm. May cover up to ~3 months of work.

Come away with:

Solid understanding of why we are building X
Understand the “enough” line (when have we built enough for the client to start using and get feedback on the product?)
Find the landmines or “anti-goals” which keep us from reaching the goals
- Ex: is mobile optimization an anti-goal?
Understand tech requirements and platforms
Understand users and how they flow through the app
Review wireframes + user research : personas, mood boards, brand guidelines, prototypes, copywriting info, styles guides. Put these in gdrive or in pinned slack notes so everyone can find them.
Create roadmap together with stories
Identify mini-releases along the way
Create and sign off on GDPR expectations what data will we persist and how long? Also how will it be exported or deleted?

Timeline

Example agenda

Development Kickoff Agenda - [Client] & Abtion

Since last time
New faces around the table
“What have we been up to” (Abtion)
Any updates from [Client]?
Identity design (if applicable)
- First take on concept, look and feel (Abtion)
Development kick-off
- User stories (All, facilitated by PM)
- Shaping MVP
- Prioritizing features
- Identify mini-releases
- Find the landmines and anti-goals
Clarify the tech requirements (Tech team)
- Browsers, languages, domains etc.
- Media hosting needs
- Hosting
- Need for tracking/statistics
- Mails
Create and sign off on GDPR expectations (PM)
- What data will we persist and how long?
- How will data be exported or deleted?
- SLA / Maintenance in the future