setting-up-development-project.md

---
id: setting-up-development-project
title: Setting up your first development project
description: "Set up your first project to model, deploy, and start a process instance."
keywords: [get-started, local-install]
---

<span class="badge badge--beginner">Beginner</span>
<span class="badge badge--medium">Time estimate: 20 minutes</span>

## Prerequisites

- [Camunda Platform 8 SaaS](https://camunda.io)
- [Desktop Modeler](https://camunda.com/download/modeler/)
- [Operate](/self-managed/operate-deployment/install-and-start.md)
- [Tasklist](/self-managed/tasklist-deployment/install-and-start.md)
- [Optimize]($optimize$/components/what-is-optimize)

## Setting up your project

Let's set up your first project to model, deploy, and start a process instance.

The [camunda-platform-get-started GitHub repository](https://github.com/camunda/camunda-platform-get-started)
contains a hands-on guide for setting up a Camunda Platform 8 project locally.

The guide offers a general walk-through on how to model, deploy, and start a
process instance. It also includes code examples on how to connect to the
cluster and complete jobs.