who we are
A talented, strategical, and ideal partner.
Introduction
Welcome! If you are reading this, you are likely interested in learning more about Inova and about how we work as a company.
Back when we started Inova, we had an idea of how the company as a whole should grow and function. But we knew that market demands, deadlines, tunnel vision, and forces of habit usually take companies in directions that separate them more and more from their original vision. We knew that we needed a way to always keep the big picture in mind. So we wrote it down.
This document is our company Playbook. Our safeguard. Our north star. It’s the blueprint that guides all of our business and development practices. We did not write this as a way to attract new clients. We wrote it for us.
Whenever we find ourselves at a crossroads or face a tough decision, we know we can go back to the Playbook for insight. Whenever we feel like we lack perspective and our intuitions are thrown off balance, we know the Playbook can remind us of our priorities and values. Whenever we feel like our work is going off on tangents and too much of our time is being spent in minutiae, we know the Playbook puts forth the methods necessary to turn that around and ensure we focus on impact.
Purpose
We trust that, with strategy and technology, we have the potential to create products that truly benefit both our clients and their users by positively impacting their lives. We pursue to add real value to people and their environment as a whole with innovation.
Mission
We’re convinced that technology is a democratizing tool full of possibilities from which everyone worldwide can profit from. We’re committed to making our contribution by encouraging and inspiring innovation in the daily lives of our collaborators, clients, and their users.
our core values
Innovation
Causing an impact
Adaptability
Continuous improvement
Methodologies & Frameworks
Agile
The Agile Methodology is an extraordinary approach that empowers us to be productive, efficient, and easily adapt to change by working iteratively and delivering value continuously. Project after project, Agile has proven to be the right way of building software products.
Digital products inherently grow and change; it’s part of their nature. Working agilely gives us the flexibility to make the most of this characteristic, making it an advantage instead of a liability. Self-organized teams are aligned, understand the product phases, priorities, and roles; this has an enormous impact on each value delivery.
Twelve Agile Manifesto principles:
Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage.
Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
QWorking software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential.
The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
SCRUM
There’s a reason why Scrum started in the software industry and has now spread to countless industries: it truly helps teams become more productive. The framework follows the agile principles and establishes a set of roles, responsibilities, and events the team should follow to succeed.
Let’s explain Scrum briefly. Shooting from the hip, Scrum teams organize their work in Sprints, which are established time periods that go from one week to a month-long. At the beginning of each Sprint, the team plans what increment of the product they’ll produce in that period; during the Sprint, they work to build it; and at the end of the Sprint, they review their work and make adaptations for the next Sprint. Scrum teams keep on working on Sprints, iterating on the product.
inova team
The number one key to success is having an outstanding team, both technically and humanly. Every person joining INOVA is valuable and relevant and will cause a huge impact on the team, company, and results. Our team has a terrific spirit, and we’re eager to potentiate it even more with every soul joining our team.
Our team is made up of brilliant minds, who are constantly creating value through aligning business goals with custom tech solutions. We have a multidisciplinary approach in which product specialists with different backgrounds work collaboratively seeking excellence in all the product spheres. We embrace challenges with synergy, communication, teamwork, and passion!
Our Working Culture
We like to think of Light-it as a community of techies eager to discover, develop and share ideas, knowledge, experiences and have fun. We give our best to make Light-it a place where collaborators are in constant personal and professional development. We work horizontally with the vision that Light-it is a place where everyone’s ideas are welcome and valued.
Some highlights
Honesty and respect first!
Empower individuals, and win together.
Hard work takes us to great results.
We're always available to talk.
Diversity means potential.
Feet on the ground, mind in the sky.
Ask, learn, teach, share, grow.
Teamwork takes us further!
Have fun!
Building Awesome Team Dynamics
our skills
We are a technology company. That will always remain our identity. That means that the toolset that we use is constantly changing as the software development landscape progresses. However, we are also very mindful of the fact that seniority matters, that 10X engineers are not unicorns and in fact exist, and that there’s a danger associated with constantly following the latest fads and not truly becoming proficient in a specific set of tools.
Therein lies the challenge: balancing the search for innovation and the excitement of using the latest technologies, emphasizing the importance of spending years with some technology or framework and becoming experts on them.
Our Approach
We approach this challenge by making sure that we can always commit to these three statements:
- Have a toolset that we can honestly claim expertise over. Discover it in our Tech Stack.
- Always have a few projects that use newer, innovative technologies.
- Encourage our teams to try new promising technologies to evaluate them for future projects.
Our tech stack
JavaScript
React.JS
Angular
Vue.JS
Node.JS
Python
Asp.NET
Java
iOS
Android
Swif
Objective-C
Flutter
PHP
C#
Oracle
MsSQL
PostgresSQL
MongoDB
Kotlin
Xamarin
Ionic
Firebase
SQLite
Ruby
MySQL
Google Cloud
AWS
Microsoft Azure
Docker
Kubernetes
Heroku
K3S
Travis CLI
Jenkins
our process
Dedicated Team
A dedicated team is a product team made up of multidisciplinary talent (Software Developers, QA Engineers, UX/UI Designers, Project Manager, and other roles) that will focus and take some level of ownership of the project to build the product successfully.
We have an in-house process that is flexible enough to adapt to each project’s needs. Our projects usually kickoff with a discovery phase, heavily influenced by Design Thinking and the LEAN approach, in which we ideate, validate and define the core requirements for an MVP. The aim of this stage is planning what, how and when we’ll get a high-value working version in production.
The output of this first stage is: a technical blueprint, design guidelines, wireframe and prototypes, a backlog for the MVP, and a roadmap with the following steps. We’ll gather experts from different areas for their valuable input. We also like to involve potential final users to better understand their needs and how our solution fulfills them.
For the product development phase, we’ll follow the roadmap planned. Of course, given our insistence on Agile development, requirements are written in the form of a backlog of User Stories. With User Stories, requirements are written in a language that is natural and intelligible for both developers and the client. We use Scrum to organize our work; this means the project is splitted into Sprints (that usually last 2 week) in which the team creates product increments. We’re in constant interaction within the team and with the Product Owner (client).
Once the MVP is ready and tested to ensure high-quality in all use cases, the product is launched. Our team keeps on bringing support to the product and adding value with improvements and new features, based on real feedback and data, according to the product’s needs.
Staff Augmentation
We provide hourly and full-time talent to product teams when a company needs an extra set of hands. Our software engineers, QA engineers and UX/UI designers are trained to support the client’s in-house team by becoming a part of it, reporting to its managers,
attending to meetings and adapting to their working methodology. Our outsourced talent maintains weekly meetings within our team to report, get feedback and insights from our leadership.
your ideal partner
By working as partners we seek a very close relationship with each client and a deep understanding of their business and user needs. Getting closer to our partners allows us to make the right decisions, and build the right products in the right way, ensuring better outcomes.
