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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)

Epic, Stories, and Tasks

An epic is a large amount of work that is almost always delivered over a number of sprints. An epic often is a high-level description of functionality. It contains no specific details. Through customer feedback, the team can learn what is needed to complete the epic. An example of an epic may be: As a user of the app, I want to be able to set up and to review a Business Model Canvas in an app.

An epic is a high-level description of the feature or features. Since specific details are missing, the team needs to learn more about the epic, and often this will generate multiple stories. solve the problem that the epic defines, can become a story.

A user story should be as small as possible while it is still delivering business value. User stories are often written from the perspective of the users of the app, and they are described in a natural language. They...