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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)

Lean Canvas

In 2009, Ash Maurya proposed the Lean Canvas. The Lean Canvas was inspired by the BMC, and by a variant by Robert Fitzpatrick that incorporated worksheets from Steve Blank's The Four Steps to Epiphany.

"Most startups fail, not because they fail to build what they set out to build, but because they waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product."
- Ash Maurya

Ash Maurya's n variant is tailored for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs testing out a new idea. The Lean Canvas helps you test out the key hypothesis that needs to be validated in order for you to find the product/market fit:

One metric that matters

Ben Yoskovitz and Alistair Croll detailed their concept of One Metric That Matters...