Ask HN: What is your process for planning/starting a new project?
I'm a fairly experienced developer but have only worked as a solo developer on projects. I run a small company of 4 where the other employees are sales & marketing oriented. I've recently begun a project to take our current website and create more of a self service web application. When you're starting a new project, what is your planning process like? Do you go as far as to wireframe/document every screen? Do you rely on any specific tools to help plan the overall architecture? For me, Once I've settled on an idea I'll design a few flows in Sketch (usually the most important part of the project), then use MindNode to create a high level architecture (Rails controllers / actions, models) then I'll hop into the code and build out what I initially mocked up in Sketch. The process then repeats for the next major part of the project. I'd love to hear a bit about and learn from your process.
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Your process sounds pretty effective to me, especially for a shop with 4 people. I've also only really got experience working with smaller teams. The only thing I would say I do differently before I commit to any ideas and wireframe is to ask everyone part of the team what they think, especially if they are not developers.