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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)

Tools that you can use

You can use a number of tools to support, automate, and visualize the process. Jira and Agilefant are well-known web-based solutions that can help you define epics, stories, estimates, and sprints. Most tools also have an option to add (sub) tasks to stories. Although a story should be the smallest amount of work possible, it can still be useful to divide them into multiple subtasks.

You can find more information about Jira at https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira. Agilefant can be found at https://www.agilefant.com.

The following is an example of Jira displaying a Kanban Board. Jira comes with good support for Agile and Scrum in particular, while Agilefant is more method agnostic:

If you just got started, you might not need all these tools yet. In that case, a whiteboard and a number of post-its are sufficient to create your first Kanban board. This...