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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)

The ugly truth - a little hybrid doesn't hurt when you have clear goals

Purists may not like this section, but the bottom line is that we're here to build great apps on whatever budget and timeframe we have. Though nativists may evangelize one platform or other, or both, that strategy doesn't cut it when you have deadlines and limited funds.

When it comes to creating an MVP, your most important constraint is the minimum, both in terms of viability and lovability. You need to meet a certain threshold in order to validate your hypothesis, win over your users, and learn from your experiences.

You can't do that if an impractical native or nothing mindset flushes your budget down the drain. This type of thinking actually opposes the Lean methodology. Perfectionism and purism can stall an app before launch, rack up costs, and even bomb it completely, all in the time...