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# Working with Partners

Occasionally development work in our repos will be done by a partner external to the Digital team. Outlined below is how we will engage with these partners.

### Preparing and Engaging

* All developers will be oriented to the digital development standards 
* All developers will be briefed on shared resources (e.g. patterns library)
* Development approach will be approved by the CDO
* Approved approach will be scoped and and specified to the satisfaction of all parties with the minimum standards so the team can test that the code is what was requested

### Managing project

* Product owner/Project Manager on Digital Team will oversee communication and management of project utilizing JIRA as as an organizing tool 
* Regular communication (e.g. weekly meetings) or stand ups as necessary between partners to understand project timelines and dependencies

  * assigning tickets between teams

### Accepting code in the codebase, deploying, and maintenance

* Digital team needs to peer review all code prior to deployment 
  * JIRA tickets should have adequate solution and documentation for updating release notes
  * Developer standards should be adhered to for code development 
* Digital team conducts the deployment into our deployment pipeline
* Partner is responsible for documenting and digital team is responsible for integrating the documentation into the Digital Team's Gitbook 
* Developer to Developer hand over of code for future maintenance of the code
* Digital Team will update release notes when code is released into the PROD code base