| 0 Requirements review | Applications, offering matrix, module scope, journeys and decision register | Product owner confirms scope and outstanding exclusions |
| 1 Authority and architecture | Institution type, system-of-record boundaries, contracts, duties and deployment model | Bank/client owners sign off exact policies and interface versions |
| 2 Financial foundations | Product versions, customers/mandates, chosen books, exact money and operation lifecycle | Isolation, concurrency, idempotency, accounting and audit tests |
| 3 First complete offering | One selected deposit/lending/card service from onboarding through closure/exception | Authoritative instruction, statement, reconciliation and recovery pass |
| 4 Channels and operations | Ops, Customer Web, mobile API and selected ATM services | Complete channel tests, accessibility and terminal/processor certification |
| 5 Controls and close | Reconciliation, business-day jobs, reports, disputes and incident handling | Count/amount controls, restart, exceptions and operator runbooks |
| 6 Migration and hardening | Reconciled opening balances/history, security, performance and DR | Bank-agreed migration control totals, assessment and restore/failover evidence |
| 7 Bank UAT and pilot | Named bank users test permitted products/duties on release candidate | Recorded expected/results/defects, approvals and pilot limits |
| 8 Production authorisation | Bank release decision, on-call/incident/rollback and communications | Explicit release approval; monitored reconciliation after launch |