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.

1. FROM DEVELOPER
TO MANAGER
Laravel Tools, Tips and Processes
Povilas Korop
www.laraveldaily.com
August 2016 @ Laracon EU

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
Readme and documentation
New developer onboarding
Testing / QA
Project / task management
Communication / notifications
Crisis management

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 .

12. forge.laravel.com
LARAVEL FORGE

13. envoyer.io
ENVOYER

14. github.com / bitbucket.org
USING BRANCHES

15. slack.com
SLACK INTEGRATIONS

16. https://github.com/spatie/laravel-backup
BACKUPS

17. bugsnag.com
BUGSNAG

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 .

20. trello.com
TRELLO

21. toggl.com
TOGGL

22. teamweek.com
TEAMWEEK

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 .

25. docs.google.com
GOOGLE DOCS

26. README.MD

27. .ENV.EXAMPLE

28. https://github.com/mpociot/documentarian
API: DOCUMENTARIAN

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
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