Goal: To prepare your development environment, retrieve all necessary task details, and create a dedicated feature branch, ensuring you are ready to begin the Researching Phase.
Phase Starts: When a new Jira ticket is assigned, a new task is identified, or when a user suggests a large feature to build. Phase Ends: When you have a clean, up-to-date feature branch with all necessary ticket information loaded, and the ticket (if applicable) is moved to "In Progress" and assigned to you.
Expected Artifacts:
- Local repository on the correct feature branch.
- Feature branch correctly named and ideally pushed to the remote repository.