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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)

Challenges in Applying Lean to Building Mobile Apps

In the last chapter, we covered a few core principles of the Lean startup. We discussed the business model canvas, agile development, customer development, and the MVP.

In this chapter, we'll delve into the underlying premise behind this book and explore some of the biggest challenges you will face as a Lean app developer. While there are a number of books about Lean in general, applying Lean to building mobile apps is relatively new territory. Next, we will introduce some of these core challenges, many of which will be revisited in detail later on in the book:

  • The higher design bar that app developers face when developing mobile apps as opposed to web apps
  • App Store submission cycles, which create delays between your completed iterations and the time they are made available to the public
  • The challenges posed by developing...