I used djangocms-installer to bootstrap django-cms project. Installer saves a great deal of time spent on intialization but its requirements.txt are outdated. As of Feb 15 2016 it enforces django<1.9 and other package requirements.
This is because django-cms didn't officially support django>1.10 at a time last djangocms-installer version was released.
This article describes how I updated generated project to support django=>1.10.