PHP Project Management: Strategies for Success & Efficiency

Clients, mainly offshore clients, are always looking for a partner PHP development company with a track of solid project management policy, PHP project planning and management team, implementation of successful PHP project management techniques, and last but the most important thing is the use of appropriate project management software.

Therefore, the current post is dedicated to PHP project management, and it may prove to be a comprehensive guide for beginners and experienced PHP project managers.

Significance of the PHP Project Management

#1 – Ensures Success

PHP project management ensures the success of the project by addressing project scopes, keeping anticipated quality, meeting deadlines, and dealing with cost constraints.

#2 – Resource Optimization

PHP project management involves proper planning of resources, including human resources, tools, software, extensions, documentation, third-party systems, scripts, etc. PHP project managers save the waste of these precious resources and reduce costs considerably.

#3 – Adaptability & Flexibility

Many times, clients suggest changes beyond the project scope defined earlier and are ready to bear the extra cost; the project management team must obey it and bring changes to the entire project mid-way. Savvy project managers adjust everything with adequate flexibility by convincing the team of BA, designers, programmers, testers, DevOps, etc.

#4 – Makes Performance Measurable

The PHP project management team prior defines project scope, KPIs, other metrics, timeline for each unit/part of the project, and room for enhancements. So, projects with continuous development and deliveries become a possibility.

#5 – Ensures Client Satisfaction & Loyalty

The project management team consists of project managers, team leaders, and additional human resources trained in project management to ensure high-quality outputs on each scrum or delivery. The team establishes continuous communication with the client-side team. They accept feedback instantly and respond in a timely manner. Their positive attitude makes clients satisfied and loyal to the PHP development company forever.

#6 – Aids in Decision Making

The PHP project management team offers a systematic framework to make the right decisions and on time to project smoothly and in the right direction. They help clients closely in the decision-making process.

#7 – Knowledge Sharing

Project managers enable knowledge sharing by sharing documents and previous case studies relevant to the current PHP project. It enriches the design and development team to cope with new challenges.

Essential Components of the PHP Project Management

The PHP project management team at iCommuneTech acknowledges some essential components of project management.

No.1 – PHP Project Scope Management:

Project scope defines limits for the project. It sets what is possible within given estimated costs. It’s a mutual understanding between client-side and development-side teams. The activities, objectives, and deliverables will be defined in due process.

No.2 – Time Management:

The team defines task schedules, milestones, and deadlines. They ensure the project is completed on time without missing the promised quality credentials.

No.3 – Cost Management:

The team provides lifetime cost estimation for each stage/step of the project. They allocate the budget accordingly. They try to control costs based on the analysis. They use financial resources wisely and avert project delays, poor quality of deliverables, and even project failure by taking appropriate measures in spending the allocated budget.

No.4 – Quality Management:

The PHP project management team sets quality standards for deliverables using various metrics and KPIs. They also put a schedule for testing to ensure anticipated quality on each scrum/step of the project.

Prerequisites of PHP Project Management

1 – Building An Appropriate Team:

Gathering desired talent for project development and management is the key to success.

Project Development Team:

It consists of BA (Business Analysts), strategists, designers, PHP programmers, QA professionals, DevOps, maintenance, and marketing professionals.

Project Management Team:

It contains project managers, team leaders, account managers, and BDO (Business Development Officer)

2 – Train the PHP Project Management Team:

The roles of a successful project management team are:

To control the PHP development process.

Allocate adequate resources.

Prioritize tasks

Coordinate the development, management, and client-side teams

Coordinates team’s actions to deliver projects on time

Establishing budget and time frame

Motivating team members

Managing documents and preparing reports

Managing risks

3 – Choose PHP Project Management Methodology

If you want to optimize PHP project efficiency and performance, you need a set of tools and guidelines to organize the project. It comes with a project management methodology. The following are popular project management methodologies used the most in PHP development project management.

Waterfall	Event Chain	Scrumban
Agile	Extreme Programming	Adaptive Project Framework
Kanban	Crystal	New Product Introduction
Scrum	Feature-driven Development	Package-enabled Engineering
Critical Path	Dynamic System Development	Outcome Mapping
Lean	Adaptive Software Development	Rapid Application Development
Six Sigma	Rational Unified Process	Project Management Body of Knowledge
Critical Chain	PRINCE2	Knowledge

4 – Decide Your PHP Project Management Platform

There are nearly two dozen project management software/platforms available in the market for 2024. Based on your requirements, company budget, and workforce choices, you can select the most appropriate PMS from the list below.

Wrike	Microsoft Project	TeamGantt
Asana	Basecamp	Todoist
Monday	Trello	Nifty
Adobe Workfront	Zoho Project	Forecast
Smartsheet	Airtable	Teamwork.com
Jira	GanttPro	Zenhub
ClickUp	ProjectManager	ProWorkFlow

Step-by-Step PHP Project Management

If you want to learn how to manage PHP projects efficiently, the team at iCommuneTech prescribes some step-by-step guides to follow.

There are some essential stages of PHP project management. Let’s see them concisely.

Step 1 – Planning

Employ a Business Analysts (BA) team to gather precise and clear information from the client or client-side team regarding their needs, expectations, and future planning with the PHP application that they are going to develop. The BA team also identifies potential risks.

Share every bit of information with the entire team and each stakeholder to participate in the planning process. Define goals and desired outcomes during project planning.

Step 2 – Building

Keep live communication between each stakeholder team, including designers, developers, testers, DevOps, management, and client-side team, to keep everyone informed and on the same page.

Close Monitoring:

Use central task management tools available in Trello, Nifty, Todoist, or Flow to keep everyone on track. Carefully monitor each task, time, and their alignment with the budget.

Keep Motivation Alive:

Many projects need trial-and-error approaches during PHP development. Going forth-and-back frequently may down the sentiments of the designing and programming teams. So, arrange regular meetings and keep them motivated by solving their issues pertaining to the development. Spread a positive vibe among the team.

Avoid Micromanagement:

Once you allocate the tasks, keep the trust of the team member and let them apply their creativity. Please don’t go for micromanagement. It will spoil trust and motivation among the members.

Step 3 – Optimization

You finished the design. You finished the code. Now, it is time to optimize the PHP web application for the intended purposes and the best performance. You can use optimization tools and strategies and run trials to enhance the overall performance of the application.

Step 4 – Finalizing

Once everything is ready on the development server, run the product to find out if anything is missing as per your plan.

Step 5 – QA

It requires thorough testing of each feature and function in the PHP web application of the frontend and backend parts.

The project management team will monitor the automated and manual testing of each unit and rate it to meet their expectations. If any error or bug is found, they allocate repairing tasks to relevant developers and ensure a bug-free and error-free application.

Step 6 – Training

The PHP project management team prepares training documents for the application’s internal and external users. They train sales, product management, and customer service teams first about how to use the product appropriately. Finally, they train the user training team to go for extensive user training once the product is deployed and live.

Step 7 – Going Live

The DevOps team uploads the application code and resources from the staging server to the live server and rolls out the launch of the PHP application. The project management team maintains correct timing and smooth sailing of the product on the live server.

Step 8 – Evaluation & Report

The project management team evaluates the product through real-time feedback from actual users in the field. They submit reports on the performance of the various features and functions of the application. So the development team can correct mistakes and improve the product’s efficiency and performance.

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Effective PHP Project Management Tips

We already summed up most of the effective PHP project management tips in the post. So, let me outline important statements here.

Use the best PHP framework according to your needs and budget. We prefer PHP Laravel for most of our clients.

Active risk management by the project management team is crucial for saving the time and money of your esteemed patrons.

Engage each stakeholder of the project by giving them adequate participation through PMS and other ways.

We prefer agile PHP development methodology against all possible options, but you can choose your methodology based on your requirements.

Our project management team at iCommuneTech always closely monitors the project progress and prepares reports regularly.

We motivate the team through various incentives, training, and real-time inputs to accomplish projects on time and with desired deliverables.

Our PHP project management team has troubleshooting skills to troubleshoot technical and human-related issues tactfully.

Best Practices for Managing PHP Projects

1. Always select an experienced project management team with PHP expertise.

2. Select a team leader with PHP experience, expertise, and leadership quality to manage a technical team.

3. Prioritize security aspects first to deal with design and coding right from the product’s planning stage. Frequently test for security vulnerabilities and errors and mend it properly.

4. Apply the best caching mechanism and software to enhance performance. Use output buffering, caching functions, and database caching. Profile your code, refactor it, and do server optimization.

5. Manae the best coding standards by monitoring developers. Use meaningful variables and names of functions, and avoid using global variables too much. Use namespace to avoid name collision.

6. Follow basic business communication etiquette.

7. Keep proper documentation of your code.

8. Use the best architecture MVC.

9. Use prepared statements for database queries.

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Wrapping It Up:

Hope you learned something new! For a recap, we have discussed the required roles, duties, and skills for managing PHP development projects with expected PHP project planning and management in this guide.

If you find anything odd in our guide on PHP project management or have any queries, please feel free to contact our PHP development team at iCommuneTech for the best guidance and solutions. If you have any PHP project in mind, we are the best bet in the market by providing competitive quotes and post-development services. Let’s talk about it!