98-Appendix-ProjectStartupList.md

Project setup checklist

1. Start with an idea
2. Choose a language(s) (C#)
3. Choose an IDE (Visual Studio)
4. Choose a cloud (Azure)
   1. What architecture will we use (containers/PaaS/VM scalesets) (the answer should NOT be VM's)
   2. What is the plan for resilency
   3. What is the plan for backups
5. Choose a DevOps platform (GitHub)
   1. Create an organization
   2. Create a repo
   3. Setup branch rules/policies (require a code review)
6. Creating the new/empty project
   1. Setup basic CI
   2. Creating basic empty projects (Rest API, Website, etc)
   3. Creating basic automated test projects - to prove that we are deploying working code
   4. unit/integration tests
   5. smoke/functional tests
   6. code coverage
   7. Add editor config file (to take the opinion out of code styling)
   8. Add infrastructure as code to deploy to each needed environment (Dev, QA, Prod?)
7. Back to GitHub
   1. Setup dependabot to automatically update dependencies
   2. Setup security to check for secrets and unsafe dependency
   3. Setup basic CD, to deploy to each cloud environment, with smoke tests and environment approvals as needed
8. Project planning
   1. Set goals/roadmap. What does Alpha/Beta/GA look like?
   2. Create Epics
   3. Create Features
   4. Create PBI/ User Stories