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PHP & Laravel Modernization. @php-laravel-modernization
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What you get
the numbers that matter≈ 2 weeks
signed to first PR
96%
engagements renewed
96%
to your stack & domain
Upgrade and refactor a legacy PHP or Laravel application for supported versions, security, and maintainability, in staged increments.
How this operator works
every way of working, already decidedOwns the system, not the ticket
Takes end-to-end ownership of a service or surface. Design, delivery, on-call. And is measured on outcomes, not hours.
Embedded, async-first, instrumented
Works inside your repos, your CI and your rituals. Daily written standups, decisions logged. No status-meeting tax.
Runbooks, canaries, reversible deploys
Every change gated and reversible. Incidents get a timeline and a postmortem; nothing ships without a rollback.
Plugged into your Slack & rituals
Joins standups and retros, reports weekly against the goal. You get an operator, not a queue.
Brings a pre-wired stack or adopts yours
Infrastructure and observability as code by default. No bespoke setup tax to absorb.
Scoped, gated, reversible
Week-1 shadow, week-2 ownership, swap on request inside the trial window. No long-tail handover risk.
Overview
Legacy PHP applications run a surprising share of the internet, often on versions that stopped receiving security fixes years ago. This package upgrades and refactors a defined PHP or Laravel application: supported PHP version, current framework release, vulnerable dependencies remediated, and the highest-risk code paths refactored for maintainability. The finish state is an application that is patchable, testable, and safe to change again.
The work is staged to keep the application live throughout: version upgrades move through the tested intermediate steps, deprecated patterns are remediated as they block, and refactoring effort concentrates where risk and change frequency are highest rather than chasing cosmetic cleanup. A test baseline and modern deployment path land as part of the sprint.
What's included
Version upgrade path
PHP and Laravel moved to supported releases through planned, tested increments.
Security and dependency remediation
Vulnerable packages and unsafe patterns fixed, with the dependency tree brought current.
High-risk refactoring
The most dangerous and most-changed code paths refactored, guided by risk, not aesthetics.
Test and deployment baseline
A working test suite for critical paths and a repeatable, modern deployment flow.
How it works
- Scope: audit versions, dependencies, and risk hotspots; agree the upgrade path and criteria.
- Build: execute staged upgrades and remediation, refactoring priority paths with test cover.
- Handover: ship on supported versions, hand over the test baseline and upgrade documentation.
Part of every Delivery Plan
The PHP & Laravel Modernization is a menu item on the Scrums.com delivery catalog, available at every plan tier. Add it to your plan backlog and your delivery team schedules it like any other item — scoped, tracked, and reported through the SEOP. See Delivery Plan Tiers.
FAQs
Our app is plain PHP, not Laravel. Does this apply?
Yes. The package covers legacy PHP with or without a framework; where adopting a framework is justified, that recommendation comes with honest costings rather than as an assumption.
Can we keep shipping features during the modernization?
Yes, staging exists for exactly that. Upgrade work proceeds in increments alongside your release cadence, and the application stays deployable at every step.
There is more debt than one sprint can cover. What then?
The audit produces a ranked map, and this sprint clears the top of it. Ongoing debt reduction continues through the Technical Debt Reduction Sprint menu item as follow-on scheduled work.
What's included
in every engagement · no add-onsTrack record
deployments on real systems · anonymized| Sector | System | Outcome | Span | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fintech | payments-core ledger | 99.97% achieved | 14 mo | ● complete |
| Commerce | checkout platform | −38% incident rate | 9 mo | ● complete |
| Health SaaS | data plane | 0 SEV1 in 6 mo | 11 mo | ● active |
| Logistics | routing engine | zero-downtime cutover | 7 mo | ● complete |
| AI infra | inference cluster | p99 −120 ms | 5 mo | ● active |
Works inside your stack
surfaces this operator binds to| Surface | Binding | Direction | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source control | github.com/<org> | reviews + writes | OIDC |
| CI / CD | scm-flow · deploy-service | gates deploys | OIDC |
| Observability | otlp://collector:4317 | metrics + alerts | mTLS |
| Comms | slack://<workspace> | standups, incidents | SSO |
| Secrets | vault://scrums/op/<id> | short-lived creds | SPIFFE |
| On-call | pagerduty://<org> | primary / secondary | API token |
Boundaries
what to deploy insteadScoped to this discipline. For an adjacent capability, compose a second operator into the squad. compose →
Not a fractional advisory engagement. For advisory-only, contact platform@scrums.com.
Deployments
the only social proof we publish402deploys
across 38 organizations
+24 last 30 days · median age 11.4 mo · retention 96%
Pricing
one number · one footnoteAvailable at all Delivery Plan Tiers →
All-in: the operator, delivery manager and replacement guarantee. No recruiter fee, no markup surprises.
Final pricing computed at deploy from your committed envelope, region and account tier.
FAQ
common questionsHow is PHP & Laravel Modernization priced?
Pricing is shown to signed-in accounts. Sign in to view the rate; pricing is computed from your engagement scope, region and account tier.
Is PHP & Laravel Modernization available now?
Yes. It is published and deployable directly from the Scrums.com catalog.
Can a PHP & Laravel Modernization deployment be reversed?
Yes. Deployments are reversible with a one-click swap inside the trial window.
Who provides PHP & Laravel Modernization?
Scrums.com, vetted by the Scrums.com platform.
How it compares
vs other delivery| Option | From | Stack | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHP & Laravel Modernization · this one | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · outcome-driven-sprints · modernization | ● available |
| Codebase Quality Audit | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · code-audit · maintenance | ● available |
| Product Discovery Sprint | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · discovery · workshop | ● available |
| Clickable Product Prototype | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · prototyping · design | ● available |
Commonly deployed with
more deliveryRun this scope on your Delivery Plan
Core costs Was $8,000£6,700R140,000 now $4,500£3,750R79,000/month for one active workstream. Your scope sets the delivery schedule and the total cost. You can use the same plan for your other development work.
Add this scope to your backlog. Your delivery owner confirms the scope with you, and the team delivers it.
One plan for your software backlog.
Work is scoped and delivered within your plan’s capacity. Priorities can change; additional parallel workstreams require more capacity.