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