Simple Feature Lifecycle

07 Feb, 2023

How do software development teams deploy features?

Here I describe a simplified process of delivering a feature form an idea to production.

Business

• Product Owner (PO) talks to a client
• PO creates a task in a task tracker (Jira, YouTrack)
• PO assigns the task to a developer

Development

• developer implements the feature in a new branch feature/new-thing
• developer creates a pull request feature/new-thing > dev
• other developer does code review and approves
• the feature is merged into dev branch
• dev branch is deployed to a test stand
• QA does testing and approves

Release

• dev branch is merged into prod branch
• prod branch is deployed to production server
• client is able to see the feature

Links

• Scrum - how teamwork is stuctured
• Gitflow - a way to with git version control system