Developer best practices

In this section, we will discuss developer best practices. Regardless of your deployment method or the system you are deploying to, it is important to keep in mind deployment best practices. Following best practices will get you much closer to realizing a successful deployment. Ignoring best practices will most definitely get you in a world of hurt eventually. First of all, every development rollout should have a plan; whether you are following the waterfall method where you follow your plan out from beginning to end or you are utilizing an Agile approach where you roll out shorter iterations and improve as you go, you must document your plan from the beginning all the way through to completion.

Requirement gathering

Requirement gathering can seem like the easy part of the development process – after all, you're only speaking with your customers and figuring out what they want and what they need in the development solution. However, this...