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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)

The MVP

This experiment is called the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). The MVP is an important concept that is a departure from the traditional big bang approach of building out a polished product and then taking it to the market. It represents the minimal set of features and functionality that would need to be built in a product in order to test market viability and maximize validate learning.

The MVP and its subsequent iterations are initially designed to test two things: whether customers will value your product, and how easily your product will expand.

Of course, the hard part often is deciding how minimal you need to be. The initial tests can be simple landing pages, interactive wireframes, or functional prototypes. The key is to create an MVP that tests the validity of the hypotheses you created in your BMC.

For instance, a landing page that promotes a nonexistent product is...