Analysis

Perform functional, architectural and current state assessments of the application and its associated documentation to identify known bugs, desired enhancements, performance issues, legacy code issues, etc.

Security

Ensure available source code and application related assets are securely managed. Ensure development source code can be version controlled. Manage escrow of source code assets where required.

Release Planning

Establish primary release cycle length for the application

Budget Planning

Establish budget for addressing issues and enhancements in current release cycle

Development Tracking

Compile a list of outstanding issues and enhancements

Prioritization

Establish a priority for each issue and enhancement on the list

Cost Analysis

Identify scope of effort and costs to address highest priority issues and enhancements in current cycle

Schedule Planning

Identify issues and enhancements that can feasibly be addressed within the current release cycle

Project Planning

Develop project plan to address identified issues and enhancements in the current release cycle

Release Cycle Oversight

Implement and track the project plan to fruition for the current release cycle

Release Cycle Actuation

Start new release cycle