By viralsnob.com 
As a freelance developer, you have learn one basic and the most important skill that every succesfull professional implement it in their career. Because a successful freelance developer knows that he is the boss of his own project. So, he trys to keep everything in his project on track. Every freelance developer makes a best plan acording to his project first before to start it.
As a freelance developer, if you want to run your project smoothly. And you want to stay calm during project and get paid on time, you have to follow the simple steps to organize your project. These important things will help you to make your project successful and organized.
1: Make a plan before you code
If you want to manage your project and make your project successful, you have to create a good plan first. Master this skill first. It will help you to avoid bad clients. Because one of the main reason that your project might become unsuccessful is your bad planning.
A freelance developer knows that one of the biggest problem he face during his project is when he works more on project, the clients keep on asking small little changes. So, you have to create a written content first to make a rule book. It will be a very good idea for both client and for you. Because if you explain everything clearly before you start a project. And once you will complete your project, you both will be happy and agree because you decided everything what you will use in project clearly before.
Because a lot of clients, at the end of the project make an unexpected requests. If you decided everything before, it will help you to prevent last minute request from the client side.
You can also make a plan for changes because with the passage of time, a lot of things changes with the advancement of technology. So, if you think that you can add some new features in your project to make it more better, you can also talk to your client about new price of the project if he agreed.
2: Use the right tools
A freelance developer should use different to manage their project. You can use some digital tools that will help you to manage your project and organize it. For example Asana and Trello are some best tools to manage freelaners task list. They use this tools to manage to do list for their project. This tool will help you to convert the complex jobs into easy to do tasks and you can also show your progress to your client.
To track your project progress, you can also use the tools like Asana and Trello. If you want to keep files, notes and projects in single place, you can also use some best tools like slack. It will help you to manage your all file at one place just like Google Drive.
If you want to take a control over your project version, you can use a tool like Git. Suppose you make any changes in your project, you can track your changes through the Git. If you did a biggest mistake while a new version of the project, you can easily take control over the older version through the Git. It means that you can have an option to save the older project as well as with the new project with the passage of time.
3: Talk to your client clearly
A successful freelance developer focuses on the good communication skills to build a good relationship with their client. And he provide the update of his project regularly. You can also send the regular update to your client in just a week or every few days later. It will help your client to track your progress and the client will not be get worry about his project whether it is done or not.
If you face any problem during the project, fix your problem first. And if it took a lot of time to fix the changes, you can talk to your client and ask them for some extra time to solve the bugs. Be honest in talking with your client and use simple language. Because you are coder and your client is not. So, you have to use simple language to talk about your project bugs. Explain the errors in simple words and don’t confuse your client while using the complex word of coding.
4: Master your time
If you don’t want to Miss deadline of the project and want to end up in time, you have to manage your time first. You can also use a timer to save time. A successful freelance developer uses Different techniques to boost their energy and focus on their work and manage it. Like promodo technique is a way that every professional uses in which they work for 25 minutes and take a break of 5 minutes. Focus on the most important things and give priority to them.
Conclusion
As in this blog post, I have described about the basic thing that every professional project developer should know. If you want to stay focus on your project and Stay organized, use these simple techniques. By following these simple tips, you are not just improving your first project. You will develop skills that will help you to become a successful project developer in future.