Laravel supports job chaining out of the box:

Bus::dispatchChain([
    new OptimizePodcast($podcast),
    new CompressPodcast($podcast),
    new ReleasePodcast($podcast)
])->dispatch();

It's a nice, fluent way of saying "Run this jobs sequentially, one after the previous one is complete.".

If you have a task which takes some steps to be completed, you can track the job chain used to do that and know the status for each job. If you are releasing a new podcast, for example, and it has to be optimized, compressed and released, you can track this steps by adding a steps relationship to your Podcast model:

public function steps()
{
    return $this->morphMany(Junges\TrackableJobs\Models\TrackedJob::class, 'trackable');
}

Now, you can have the status of each job that should be processed to release your podcast:

$steps = Podcast::find($id)->steps()->get();