I’m going to come right out with it. We used the “L” word that we said we would never use. The word that rhymes with “haunch”. La*!%h. Shit, I said it again.

2 months ago we went dark. No more updates to our app, TransparentMBA. We wanted to refactor the app with a brand new design, a few new features, and a brand spankin’ new name — TransparentCareer. We had a la*!%h date set on our calendars and a la*!%h party organized.

As a company we tend to follow the “do what feels right and works for us” mentality. So from a product and development standpoint, over those two months, we went against our normal cadence of “sprints” and instead chose to take our time with this re-la*!%h. Jason Fried said it best when explaining how Basecamp sets up th...