If you don't mind reading a bit, I recommend two great books by Steve McConnell:
1)Rapid Development
2)Software Project Survival Guide
He also has quite a bit of templates & forms on his company's website. Of course they sell a package, but quite a bit is free for the taking.
<http://www.construx.com/cxone/basic/map.php>
Best Regards-
Andrew
> I'm taking the "opportunity to excel" here at work and trying to bring
> some order to our web application development. For the last year we
> have been a team of two experienced CF developers, the previous year
> there was only one. Pretty much working ad hock on projects as they
> came along with little formal documentation. A single developer was
> pretty much completely responsible for each project. This has worked
> well enough for the mostly smallish projects we have done to date.
>
> Success has lead to more confidence by management and they are
> beginning to authorize more ambitious projects that will be beyond the
> scope of what a single developer can do in a reasonable amount of time.
> Cool stuff with 1+ man years of development.
>
> To accommodate these projects our team is expanding. We are adding 3
> junior CF developers to the team. I believe we need to grow up and
> become more professional. Start applying a standard, formal software
> development process. Allowing multiple team members with different
> skill levels to work on these large projects.
>
> What I'm looking for are Software Life Cycle documentation templates,
> preferably free. When I've tried to Google for this stuff I only find
> examples that somebody wants to sell me (or even more costly entire
> consulting packages). I'm hoping some of you may have worked, or
> better yet managed, larger teams responsible for creating ColdFusion
> web applications and are willing and able to share some templates for
> Requirements, Design, Detailed Design type documentation or maybe know
> of a good resource where I might get these type of templates.
>
> Also any nice suggestions for basic information on web application
> project management would be most appreciated. I've had overviews of
> analysis and design in classes, read about why formal processes good
> in many places, but this will be the first time I've ever tried to be
> anything like a "senior" developer after some seven years of mostly
> solo and duet work.
>
> scary, Scary, SCARY thought on many levels.
>
> Thanks for reading my combination plea/rant.
> Eternal thanks for any information.
>
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> BloodSource
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> Sacramento, CA
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