How Do I Ensure a Successful Laravel Project?
In this article, we discuss the benefits of engaging the right IT consulting partner and team to complete your Laravel software application, web application or solution.
While Laravel developers will typically tell you that Laravel is easy to learn and use (especially if you are familiar with PHP), it is easy for less experienced developers to overestimate their expertise and, if your project requires an extensive knowledge of the packages, tools, extensions and techniques, you may find it hard to get the results you want.
‘If you choose to engage a partner to develop your solution, your development team should have existing knowledge, skill and experience in the Laravel environment.’
What Skills, Experience and Knowledge Does Your Laravel Consulting Partner Need?
Whether you want to develop a technology solution, a content management system (CMS), an eCommerce product or an educational outreach site, you will need the right skills and experience to complete a Laravel project.
Laravel leverages PHP and integrates technologies including MySQL for database management, HTML5 to structure and present your content JQuery for the user interface and Angular to build the web app. Be sure that your prospective IT consulting partner has these skills and the numerous others required to address any and all of your requirements.
- Technical Feasibility
- Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Design and Deployment
- Tool and Package Integration
- Device, Platform and Third-Party Integration
- Project Management
- Architectural Design
- Product Design and Development
- Laravel and PHP Development
- Laravel and PHP Support
- Back-End API Development with Laravel Lumen Microservices
- Application Design, Development, Maintenance and Support
- Application Re-Engineering
- User Interface Design
- Deployment, Maintenance and Support
- Upgrades
- Testing
- Security, Privacy, Standards and Compliance
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Quality Management Methodologies and Certification
- Migration Services
- Product Roadmaps
- PHP, MySQL, HTML5, JQuery and Angular Skills
- Content Management Systems (CMS) and Portals (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.)
- eCommerce Development
If you choose to engage a partner to develop your solution, your development team should have existing knowledge, skill and experience in the Laravel environment. Laravel releases numerous updates, so the team you choose must have a process in place to maintain up-to-date training so that their resources are working with the latest information, features, functionality and approaches within a package, a program, an extension or a tool.
You can build your software team with dedicated resources to work on your project and guide you to project completion, and through upgrades and maintenance, without the need for your business to hire, train and house a development team. Hire Laravel programmers that are dedicated to your project for a one-time project or for ongoing maintenance, support and upgrades.
‘Without an extensive knowledge of the packages, tools, extensions and techniques, you may find it hard to get the results you want.’
This article provides a list considerations and requirements to help you engage the right IT consulting partner and Laravel development resources. If you are interested in finding out how Laravel can help your business, you can get more information here: Find out whether Laravel Application Design and Development and the PHP development approach is the right choice for your team. Explore the benefits and components of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) approach to product design with these complementary articles: ‘What is a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)? and Why Should My Business Care?.’ Discover the benefits and components of mobile application development, and the Flutter development environment, with these complementary articles: ‘Mobile App Development is Important to Business, So Are Mobile App Programmers,’ ‘What are the Pros and Cons of Flutter Programming?.’
