I've been assigned to create a development policy for our project which is a test case management web application using Spring MVC and Java.For instance, I think I would have to create the coding guidelines to be followed by the new joinees in the team. Also including the project architecture so that whenever a new joinee joins the team he can go through the policies and understand the work culture in the Project. Apart from this what are other things which should be part of the Development policies? Please guide me as I'm new for this kind of tasks. 
What things needs to be taken care of while writing Development Policy for Project?
project management;document management
Guessing this is a student project.But whatever, every dev team should document agreed policies.That does not mean one guy writes a book up front; you can guarantee the rest of the team will ignore such a thing.What is required is a team discussion regards ways of operating,and someone to document that.This should be within some kind of shared space such as a wiki. Issue to consider include :source control approachcode reviews, pull requests etc.test standardsexpectations around documentation: in code, elsewhere, none at all, design, requirements etc.continual build and release or whatevereveryone cleans up their own mess or core maintainer?Agile, scrum etc type practices to be followed.Etc. Etc.Build this incrementally,  day by day by capturing team discussion.