Consistency is a Quality unto itself Whether it be in process, code, DB design, jira, or the wiki... Being consistent is a tremendous asset to software development!

Process Overview

In an active software product development project, many activities have to happen in parallel:

• Issue handling
• Architecture & Design
  
• Development
• Testing
• Customer Support
  

We can examine each sub-process/activity in seclusion, and then consider how to orchestrate the individual pieces to make beautiful music.
In the following figure, you can see a rough concept for how we get the first production release out the door.

It should be noted that there can be some coding activity in the planning phase when you need to do some technical spikes, or other proofs of concept involving testing out some coding ideas.