Case Study

Interfolio

Interfolio helps academic institutions make better decisions such as who should get tenure by creating software to manage these processes.

Challenges.

Interfolio was working on a new enterprise product line. Due to the nature of the ed-tech market, the beginning of the school year is an important and non-negotiable deadline for product releases. Despite Interfolio's excellent technical capabilities, their team wasn't big enough to accomplish everything they wanted by that time, so they came to gunpowderlabs to temporarily augment their existing team. Since this was an existing product rather than a separate project, it was paramount that those developers would seamlessly plug into their development process.

Approach.

We provided Interfolio with two dedicated, full-stack developers for 6 months. The goal was to do that with as little friction as possible, so we joined their Scrum meetings and standup calls, and used the same project management tools and processes. We reviewed each other's code and made an effort to teacher their developers what we know, and vice-versa. In practical terms, we became a part of their team.