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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we provided an extensive case study that illustrated much of what is discussed in the book. We learned about the Flyng app, covering the things that we did well and did not do well. We have seen what the earliest assumptions were and how we gather feedback. It is important to prove your hypotheses as early as possible. It is important to properly validate them. If not, then it could result in a waste of time. That is what we saw happen with the SAM feature. Maybe it just needs a small pivot to make it a success, which will require some new experiments. These are all the things that perhaps could be applied to your app as well.

As of today, Flyng is still evolving. The adventure is ongoing and we continue to build, measure, and get feedback every day. Sometimes that is tough; but given the good spirit of the team, we will continue to move forward. I have...