video I want to give you a quick overview of our process here at Enovo. We've been in business for
about since 2010 so we're coming up on 15 years and we've tried a lot of different processes and
one huge thing that has been helpful is we read Shape Up. It's a book by Ryan Singer and from the
guys at Basecamp and 37signals and that's been very helpful and we kind of got some general idea
of our process from there and then in 2025 we've been working directly with Ryan to refine our
process as an agency and really adjust that to be much more specific when working with clients.
So let me walk you through kind of how we see projects going and how we like to think about
projects. So first off this diagram is very helpful because this is sort of the cycle of a
project. We start with framing a project. This means we're just figuring out like general boundaries
of the project. How what's the appetite going to be which always you know reverts back to a cost
it translates to cost for the client. Then once they approve the project we get into shaping it
getting very clear about what we're doing doing prototypes breadboarding things like that all
just to bring clarity. So it's kind of everything that you could do building it except for writing
the code. So just spending a little bit extra time on that and taking taking time not don't jump right
into just building it and writing code immediately. Then we go to build it and then of course shipping
and we have ship as its own phase because there's a there's sort of a process to it sort of bug
testing ruling out edge cases there's some little things to do before you you know actually ship it
and then we sort of you know repeat that cycle with our clients and we like to think of it like
this if you've seen the hill chart analogy of a project from Basecamp as well we've copied that
here where uphill we're really focusing on all the unknown things about the project we don't actually
know how tall this project how big this project is going to be so we're kind of just working our
way uphill climbing this mountain at some point we're going to hit the peak and we're like cool
we're at the top we have concrete understanding of what all we have to do and it's super clear now
and then we just go to the build phase and we just essentially it gets easier and it is has
sort of a downhill feeling where it's all the things that are known we know how to build this
tool we know how to build these components it's very clear at this point and so in the first part
we're doing a lot of framing and shaping that translates to doing a little you know ai prototypes
with v0 breadboarding with fig jam and then reviewing things with clients and on the uh it's
really the human side it's the meetings it's it's digging in it's it's like really uh researching
like the best strategy for this thing and and uh getting a lot of clarity where there may not be
clarity in the project and then on the right side once we go downhill that's where we want to you
know leverage all the ai stuff to uh write the code to build it um making sure that it's uh you
kind of take the role of the senior developer and you you know have these junior ai developers
build this all for you so this is a very helpful table here as well we've got this framing step
figuring out the problem the outcome appetite uh we're going to be using fig jam notion and the
shape up gpt for that uh on the shaping side we're breadboarding and doing data architecture
we use typically use fig jam just a virtual whiteboard uh rapid prototypes you know just
clarifying unknowns quickly um the prototype can help do that we use you know v0 and figma and
other uh tools for that task grid we're essentially working through and just making sure that we've
broken the entire project now into no more than nine sections of the project and then having
various tasks into each one of those sections and each section can kind of stand on its own
so when we come in and look at the project we can get a good sense of where we at like
we've got these two or three sections done and now we're working on the fourth
it should be very clear um and to see meaningful progress done um we also once that's done we do
the ai-friendly uh project requirement doc and we programming ai to do to use precision when it
works through its tasks and of course build and ship you're just using your favorite ide
cursor windsurf whatever you want uh and so and then you just build it so that's sort of our
overarching process for this there are videos for each one of these and we'll dive into details on
how we do each of these things and if you have questions you can always reach out to us
but this is an evolving process and we'll continue to update these videos as our process changes