Gaslight Blog
To build lasting impact with our clients, their end-users, and our community.
Sure, we love to geek out over technology and design. But it's all for a bigger purpose - boosting your business. Through development, design and business categories here on our blog - we break down our best practices, what to look for when it comes to software development, and how you can in fact, leverage technology.
06/18/15
International Developer Exchange: Programming Adventures in Costa Rica
Back in March two of Gaslight’s partners attended OpsConf, an unconference for leaders of software development shops. At the event, they met Carlos Sirias, the CEO of a software consulting company called Pernix in Costa Rica. Carlos reached out to us a few weeks after the conference and proposed a...
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06/16/15
Releasing CRäKN, Week 5: A Tale of Two Retrospectives and a Post-it Note Explosion
This post is part of a blog series that follows along as we work with our client, CRäKN, to build a software-as-a-service app. First post here. Time flies when you’re building a new app, and at week five, it was time for project retrospectives. Two short meetings to check in...
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05/21/15
Releasing CRäKN, Week 4: What It’s Like to Be a New Product Owner and Showing Off Working Features
This post is part of a blog series that follows along as we work with our client, CRäKN, to build a software-as-a-service app. First post here. Word for the week: productive. If you were a super secret invisible spy in the office, you’d have seen the CRäKN team wearing headphones...
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04/30/15
Releasing CRäKN, Week 3: A Design Demo, Early Feature Delivery, and High Anxiety
This post is part of a blog series that follows along as we work with our client, CRäKN, to build a software-as-a-service app. First post here. This week kicked off with nerves running high. On Monday afternoon, there was a design and user experience demo scheduled with CRäKN Founder Scott...
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04/23/15
Releasing CRäKN, Week 2: Moving in Together and Designing User Experience
This post is part of a blog series that follows along as we work with our client, CRäKN, to build a software-as-a-service business. First post here. We move a little fast here at Gaslight, so we invite clients to work in our office right next to their design and development...
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04/16/15
Releasing CRäKN, Week 1: User Story Mapping and Information Overload
This post is part of a blog series that follows along as we work with our client, CRäKN, to build a software-as-a-service business. First post here. If there’s a theme for the first week of the CRäKN build, it’s probably “fire hose vs. straw.” Everyone described the week as fun...
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