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Resources for planning your software engagement.
Use these checklists to organize the information your team needs before discovery, development or onboarding.
Project brief checklist
- Business goal
- Intended users
- Main workflow
- Platforms
- Existing systems
- Available designs or specifications
- Important constraints
- Person responsible for decisions
Technical handover checklist
- Repository ownership
- Build instructions
- Environments
- Deployment process
- Dependency licenses
- Service accounts
- Monitoring
- Backup and recovery guidance
AI pilot checklist
- One defined task
- Representative examples
- Permission to use data
- Evaluation criteria
- Review and failure handling
- Operating cost assumptions
- Next decision
Insights
Practical articles
How to scope an AI pilot before development begins
Choose one workflow, define useful checks and plan a pilot that supports a decision.
Is your product ready for a dedicated development team?
What to prepare so an external team can work effectively with your roadmap.
Tools
Plan your project
Project Estimator
Answer a few questions to get a planning outline.
FAQs
Answers about engagements, delivery and ownership.
AI Platforms
How we compare OpenAI, Gemini, Llama and others.
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Delivery and Teams
A practical checklist for taking over an inherited codebase
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