All projects go through largely the same types of phases. I'm not sure if you're existing experience is in waterfall, or agile techniques, but from a waterfall perspective, your project will go through the following stages:
- Idea (Terms of Reference)
- Definition (High Level PMP, Business Case, Risk Assessment etc, Requirements, Functional Spec etc)
- Build (Technical spec, etc?)
- Test (Scripts, plans etc)
- Implementation (Pilot, training)
- Close (Handover to BAU)
For the waterfall model, taking a look at Prince2PRINCE2 documentation would give you an idea of the framework/governance, and DSDM (Atern) could be useful if you're going to work iteratively.
Good luck!
Gregg