Project Execution Checklist

Management Part

Manage the Setup of the necessary development environment/other resources (stage, Git, accesses)

Develop and distribute status reports (as identified in the Communication Plan)

Manage project’s issues, risks and changes. Take appropriate action as necessary

Update documentation/Baseline/Schedule along the way when necessary

Monitor and Document items for Lessons Learned – Best practices

Daily/weekly statuses

Conduct Retrospectives

Manage the Team’s issues, risks, changes (1-on-1’s)

Do iterative Estimating and Planning (choose one of the techniques)

Monitor Metrics/ adjust processes

Present an overview of every sprint before starting

Report about the updates after the release, perform a demo after the end of every sprint. Ideally, the team-lead takes part in a demo with the client.

Technical Aspects

Set up a stage access to for the client

Stablish monitesation strategy from a customer

Connect a domain name + access to the domain

Mailchimp setup (create the account & letter template, receive api key & list ID)

SMTP configuration for email sending

When transferring a client’s database to our stage server, check if there are any triggers that automatically send mailing to users

After moving the site to live, delete test users and change passwords in WP / admin-panel; change test emails to client’s emails

Create the accounts for the clients

Determine the optimal transfer time and make sure it is not Friday

Receive all accesses (cPanel, ftp, phpMyAdmin, etc)

Prepare the backup – rollback plan

Transfer file database in advance

Check cookies popup

Add client’s email to the contact forms

Check redirects www/http/https

Update the database for the presence of hard links from the stage (the same applies to emails)

Set up 301 redirects

Transfer & check NS for emails

Check SSL Secure http://prntscr.com/pwuqip

Use cacher (Gzip & Cache)

Create 404 page

Asset minification

Asset compressions

SEO

Clarify what methods of website promotion the customer plans to use (focus on our SEO checklist)

Copy (find out) all tracking codes and links with third-party services and install

Propose to use Hotjar for error analysis

Check h1/h2/h3 (h1 should be bigger than h2, etc)

Help with Google Analytics setup

Google Ads setup

Setup webmaster tools

index vs no-index – remind the client about the indexing of the site in Google Webmaster tools, after transferring the project to live. – https://prnt.sc/10zx5z1

Implement pagespeed guidelines

Record page speed stage + after go-live

Add Sitemap & Robots.txt + send to google Sitemap

Check OG markup and structured data markup

Checking for errors in Search Console after reindexing

Add meta-titles and descriptions