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Lean Mobile App Development

By : Mike van Drongelen, Aravind Krishnaswamy
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Lean Mobile App Development

By: Mike van Drongelen, Aravind Krishnaswamy

Overview of this book

Lean is the ultimate methodology for creating a startup that succeeds. Sounds great from a theoretical point of view, but what does that mean for you as an a technical co-founder or mobile developer? By applying the Lean Start-up methodology to your mobile App development, it will become so much easier to build apps that take Google Play or the App Store by storm. This book shows you how to bring together smarter business processes with technical know-how. It makes no sense to develop a brilliant app for six months or longer only to find out later that nobody is interested in it. Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) first. Validate your hypotheses early and often. Discover effective product development strategies that let you put Facebook's famous axiom "move fast and break things" into practice. A great app without visibility and marketing clout is nothing, so use this book to market your app, making use of effective metrics that help you track and iterate all aspects of project performance.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)

How to transition from an unscalable MVP to scalable code

On the one hand, you have the setting for your experiment, which includes your users, the marketplace, and real-world conditions. On the other hand, you have the MVP itself. Although its earliest iterations are just an experiment, it is also an actual product. From the beginning, it is necessary to plan for potential growth.

In this section, we will discuss tools and techniques that will help you test economically and scale sustainably, without being overwhelmed by the ever-present danger of technical debt:

Focusing on learning with wireframes and prototypes

As discussed earlier in Chapter 5, A Pragmatic Approach, wireframes and prototyping do not directly scale as...