This is a cross post from Deep Focus Technologies, our development partner on LiquidPlanner's iPhone App.

Delivering projects on time with LiquidPlanner? There’s an app for that.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. – Peter Robert Fleming

The Beginning

It was the beginning of the summer and I was sitting with Charles Seybold and Jason Carlson of LiquidPlanner to discuss the possibility of building a mobile application to support their SaaS project management system. It was fun to be working with Charles and Jason again — we’d worked together at Expedia while they were incubating the ideas that would lead them to leave Expedia and create LiquidPlanner.

From the beginning, the passion for the product and the details came through and we quickly sketched out and talked through an initial design for the application and the API (currently in beta) that would sit behind it to provide access to LiquidPlanner.  The team had a solid vision for what they wanted the app to do both in the initial incarnation as well as over time. Following the principles that launched LiquidPlanner, we focused on the functionality to deliver in version 1.0.

I headed back to the luxurious offices of Deep Focus Technologies, to work on turning the white board sketch into an initial set of wireframes so we had something more concrete to visualize.  More discussion, refinement, and a schedule in LiquidPlanner and we were ready…

The project got the green light and I began work in earnest.  Back at LiquidPlanner, Brett had a super-early release of the API — we were almost ready to begin hooking things up...

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