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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 saw a brief introduction to Agile and Scrum workflow and how you can benefit from them. We now know how you can use Kanban to visualize the state of each item of work, and what some possible implementations of the agile workflow are. In particular, we had a look at Scrum, the different roles that exist, and what planning and estimation a Scrum environment requires.

You might think that all of this makes sense, but it will be difficult to implement if you have limited resources and time. What can we do to keep waste to a minimum, but still act in a very pragmatic way? You will read all about that in the next chapter.