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:

 1. Idea (Terms of Reference)
 2. Definition (High Level PMP, Business Case, Risk Assessment etc, Requirements, Functional Spec etc)
 3. Build (Technical spec, etc?)
 4. Test (Scripts, plans etc)
 5. Implementation (Pilot, training)
 6. Close (Handover to BAU)

For the waterfall model, taking a look at PRINCE2 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!