Slides for my talk at PHPExperience 2018 in São Paulo. It's about 10 things I believe are important in order to have a successful long-term IT project.

1. Good project
from scratch
Developer's point of view

2. Pawel Lewtak
Developer @ GOG.com
@pawel_lewtak

3. 0. Disclaimer

4. 1. Analysis

5. What to build?

6. What problem to solve?

7. Mariusz Gil
"The root of all evil in programming is
misunderstanding of the problem. Ask
right questions to right people before
first line of code."

8. Stefan Priebsch
"Tech people must speak the
language of Business people, not vice
versa."

9. Domain Driven Design

10. Event Storming

11. Waterfall vs Agile

12. Heraclitus
"The only thing that is constant is
change."

13. 2. Architecture

14. Monolith vs Microservices

15. Martin Fowler
"you shouldn't start a new project with
microservices"

16. Service Oriented
Architecture

17. Clean architecture

19. You're not unique

20. Don't reinvent the wheel

22. microservices
serverless
artificial intelligence
machine learning
blockchain
nosql
virtual/augmented reality
internet of things
cloud computing
deep learning
quantum computing

23. 3. Tests

24. Test Driven Design

25. Tests !== Test Driven Design

26. Behaviour Driven
Development

27. Kent Back
"If it's hard to write a test, it's a signal
that you have a design problem, not a
testing problem"

28. 4. Code Review

30. 5. Continous ...

31. Continous integration

32. Continous deployment

33. Deployment !== Release

35. 6. Monitoring

36. 7. Metrics

37. Business Metrics

38. 8. Automation

39. If it moves, automate it!

40. 9. Documentation

41. Start with README

42. 10. Communication

43. Communication
is NOT a soft skill

44. Communication
is a core skill!

45. Denton Gentry
"I wish the understanding were more
widespread that we plateau in coding
skill mid-career, it is all about
communication after that"

46. Thank you!

47. Questions