Get your boss to pay for Flutter in Production

I recently launched Flutter in Production, and some people have mentioned that they don’t know how to approach their boss to ask them to pay for it. Here’s an email template to help you with that.

Request for Professional Development: Flutter in Production Course

Dear {Boss},

I have come across a Flutter course that I believe will increase our team’s ability to ship and maintain Flutter apps in production. This course covers best practices for CI/CD pipelines, error monitoring, app store submissions, and more.

The course takes around 10-15 hours to complete, based on an average reading speed. It walks us through the following topics:

• Preparing for release: app icons, splash screens, flavors, environments, error reporting, analytics, force update, privacy, T&Cs.
• App Submissions: app store metadata & screenshots, compliance, testing vs distribution tracks, dealing with rejections.
• Release automation: CI workflows, environment variables, custom build steps, code signing, uploading to the stores.
• Post-release: error monitoring, bug fixes, addressing user feedback, over-the-air updates, feature flags & A/B testing.

By enrolling in the course, our team will:

• Have a clear release plan, along with detailed guides and checklists so we don’t miss any important steps
• Be confident about the app submission and review process on the App Store and Play Store
• Have a completely automated process for deploying our app releases with ease
• Be able to monitor our apps in production, get user feedback, and resolve issues effectively

Flutter in Production was made by Andrea Bizzotto with over 15 years experience as a software developer, and over 6 years as a Flutter developer and educator (here are some testimonials).

If you would like to look over all the lessons, you can find them here. Certificates are also available upon completion of the course. Note that the course is currently 2/3 done—the remaining release automation and post-release modules will be published in Q1 2025.

I am asking that we allocate some of our training budget for this course and bulk discounts are available should we want the team to go through this together.

Thanks!

{Your Name}

If you are a boss reading this, investing in your staff’s training is really valuable in both improving your company’s output, but also making your staff feel rightly valued, supported and invested in. Staff training spend is also tax-deductible and often incentivised in various countries.

If you have any questions about bulk licences or anything related to Flutter in Production, we’re ready to help at courses@codewithandrea.com.

Credit for the email template goes to Andy Bell.