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PHASE 05 OF 07

Development

Senior teams writing the code, not training on it. Modern frameworks, clean boundaries, and architecture decisions written down so the next engineer onboards in a day.

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DURATION
8 – 24 weeks
CADENCE
Daily deploys to staging
LEAD
Principal Engineer
WORK-STREAMS
6

SEQUENCE · 7 PHASES

01Discover02Analyse03UI04Iterations05Development06Testing07Launch

THE WORK, IN ORDER

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STREAMS
06
WINDOW
8 – 24 weeks
LED BY
Principal Engineer
01

Frontend Engineering

React, Next.js, TypeScript — accessible, performant, beautifully built.

WORK STREAM 01 / 06
02

Backend & APIs

Node, Python, Go services with clear contracts, observability, and resilience.

WORK STREAM 02 / 06
03

Database Design

Schemas, indexes, migrations, and query patterns built for scale.

WORK STREAM 03 / 06
04

DevOps Integration

CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and environment parity from day one.

WORK STREAM 04 / 06
05

Code Reviews

Senior engineers reviewing every PR — quality and knowledge transfer in one.

WORK STREAM 05 / 06
06

Documentation

Architecture docs, ADRs, and runbooks so the next engineer onboards in hours.

WORK STREAM 06 / 06
PHASE 06

Hands off to Testing & QA.

Everything produced here becomes the input of the next phase — nothing is re-discovered twice.

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WRITTEN ARTIFACTS

What you keep after this phase.

Documents, diagrams, and recorded sessions that outlive the engagement and stay with your team.

PHASE 05 · 04 DELIVERABLES · YOURS TO KEEP

  1. A1

    Production Codebase

    Git · Reviewed PRs

    Every commit reviewed by a senior engineer. No lone-wolf merges.

  2. A2

    API Contracts

    OpenAPI · Versioned

    Typed, documented, breaking-change tracked, and consumer-tested.

  3. A3

    Architecture Records

    ADR markdown

    Every consequential decision captured in the repo, not lost in Slack.

  4. A4

    Runbooks

    Markdown · In repo

    On-call playbooks for the systems we ship. Tested in chaos drills.

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