Introduce project handover framework - checklist for getting the project from previous project manager. The best practice: to have all of this information updated in one place and begin to gather it from the first day of your work.
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Product/Project Overview
- Functional and non-functional requirements
- Use Cases
- Development Metrics
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Team
- List of team members
- Feedback from management
- Feedback from HRs
- Personal development plans
- Vacation plans
- Education plans
- Succession chart
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Design
- Software Architecture and Strategy
- Data Model (ER)
- 3rd party products and interfaces
- Communications Strategy
- Languages and Scripts
- User Interface
- Design Constraints
- Performance
- Access, Roles and Authentication
- Reporting
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Development Tools
- Development Environment
- Version Control System (VCS)
- Bugtracker
- Code Analysing
- Continuous Integration Tool
- Wiki
- Automatic documentation building
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Source Code
- Coding Conventions and Guidelines
- Solution Structure
- Dependencies
- Code quality
- Complexity
- Exception Handling
- Logging
- Comments
- VCS strategy (e.g. gitflow)
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Build and Release Management
- Build types
- CI/CD
- Release and patch strategy
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QA
- Unit testing and code-coverage
- Integration and API Testing
- Load Testing
- Build Verification Testing
- UI Testing
- Manual Functional Testing
- Quality gates
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Deployment
- Environments: DEV, QA, UAT, STAGING, PROD
- SaaS / Hosted / On-Premise
- Security checking
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Documentation
- User Guide
- Developer Guide
- Setup Guide
- Integrations Description (API, RAML, Swagger links)
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Project management
- Project History (Kickoff meeting presentation, meeting meenutes etc)
- Stakeholders
- SDLC Description
- Project Charter
- Key customers
- Roadmap
- Project plan and task tracker
- Risk Management
- Communication Management
- Assumptions and constraints
- RACI
- Reporting, Weekly status reports
- Common/Recurring Tasks
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System Administration
- Accounts and logins
- Installed programs/packages
- 3rd party interfaces/equipment
- Required Licenses & Maintenance agreements
- Cron jobs
- Port Mapping and Firewalls
- System Administrator / DevOps Contacts
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Maintenance
- SLA
- Disaster Recovery Plan
- Change Management
- Service Desk, incident escalation policies
- Product Support flow
- Monitoring
- Logging
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Contract and Budget
- Contracts, Invoices, Promises
- Suppliers and thier contacts
- Vendors and thier contacts
- Timesheets management policy
Michael D. Watkins. The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded. Link