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 following two steps:

1 - Add a steps relationship to your Podcast model:

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

2 - Override the trackableType and trackableKey methods provided by the Trackable trait, so this package will track the jobs and automatically relate it to the Podcast you are working on:

public function trackableKey(): ?string
{
    return (string) $this->podcast->id;
}

public function trackableType(): ?string
{
    return $this->podcast->gerMorphClass();
}

This will store the id and type of your podcast in the tracked_jobs table. Then, it will be used to retrieve all tracked jobs that were related to that podcast:

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