Web Development Project Life cycle

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I was going to start this off as ‘The Ideal Web Development Environment’, but I soon realized that I was instead describing how a projects life cycle should go. So, I decided to stick to that. I will be explaining what I feel is the ideal project life cycle for a typical web development project. Some of these things aren’t necessary for smaller environments and other elements are missing for larger ones.

To complete a project, you have to have milestones and goals or else your get lost on your way. Following these steps does take longer than coding and uploading to a live site and testing it on the production server - but its benefits are well worth it.
There are a few key milestones in a projects life cycle.

1. Initial spec meeting
2. Project Definition Document / Scope document / Contracts
3. Follow up meeting / agreement
4. Human Resource Planning / Information sharing
5. Project Planning
6. Environment creation
7. Database schema creation
8. Design/Layout creation
9. Development / Programming
10. Testing
11. User Acceptance testing
12. Training
13. Deployment
14. Support / Maintenance

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