From Laravel Developer to Manager: Tools, Tips and Processes
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A presentation that I've had at Laracon.eu 2016 at unconference track. About my road from being a developer to being a manager and a business owner.
From Laravel Developer to Manager: Tools, Tips and Processes
- 1. FROM DEVELOPER TO MANAGER Laravel Tools, Tips and Processes PovilasKorop www.laraveldaily.com August2016@LaraconEU
- 2. T H E R E L I V E D A L A R A V E L F R E E L A N C E W E B - D E V E L O P E R . ONCE UPON A TIME..
- 3. AND HE WAS HAPPY! Everyone loved and respected him. And gave him more work to do.
- 4. I WILL HIRE OTHER FREELANCERS! C O M P A N Y . C O M S O H E T H O U G H T W H A T C O U L D P O S S I B L Y G O W R O N G ? . .
- 5. DEVELOPER BUSINESS OWNER MANAGER S O T W O T R A N S I T I O N S H A P P E N E D . . . +
- 6. HOW CAN I CREATE PROJECTS THAT BRING SUCCESS TO MY CLIENTS? Q U E S T I O N F O R A F R E E L A N C E R :
- 7. HOW CAN I HELP OTHERS CREATE PROJECTS THAT BRING SUCCESS TO OUR CLIENTS? Q U E S T I O N F O R A T E A M L E A D E R :
- 8. PROCESSES C O M P A N Y . C O M I T ' S A L L A B O U T . . . A N D T O O L S T O I M P L E M E N T T H E P R O C E S S E S
- 9. C O M P A N Y . C O M Examples of processes Deployment Readmeanddocumentation Newdeveloperonboarding Testing/QA Project/taskmanagement Communication/notifications Crisismanagement
- 10. SO I'M STILL LEARNING... C O M P A N Y . C O M But I will tell you some lessons learned, also tools/tips that help along the way.
- 11. DEPLOYMENT C O M P A N Y . C O M P R O C E S S 1 .
- 14. github.com / bitbucket.org USING BRANCHES
- 18. TIPS ABOUT DEPLOYMENT Responsibilities: Know who does what and when Talk with clients about hosting upfront Documented processes - so that anyone could potentially deploy code But be careful about everyone deploying code Standard staging servers is a great thing Auto-deploy to staging You still have to SSH to fix stuff Don't panic
- 19. PROJECT MANAGEMENT C O M P A N Y . C O M P R O C E S S 2 .
- 21. toggl.com TOGGL
- 23. TIPS ABOUT MANAGEMENT Again - clear processes (what is "done", "pending" etc.) Set up notifications properly (but not too many) Deadlines, milestones and reasons for them Views for clients and for developers Review the whole thing once in a while Visual feedback (screenshots / screencasts)
- 24. DOCUMENTATION C O M P A N Y . C O M P R O C E S S 3 .
- 26. README.MD
- 27. .ENV.EXAMPLE
- 29. TIPS ABOUT DOCUMENTATION Think about others Put documentation where it can be easily accessed Don't write 20-page long tutorials Videos and screencasts are a good thing
- 30. THANK YOU M Y J O U R N E Y H A S J U S T B E G U N . . L A R A V E L D A I L Y . C O M P O V I L A S @ L A R A V E L D A I L Y . C O M @ P O V I L A S K O R O P