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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)

How to define your MVP

There is a lot of controversy surrounding how to define an MVP, as it relates to answering the question of "How minimal is minimal?" It's a very subjective concept, and every product has its own set of nuances and requirements that make it a little different. It's not an all-or-nothing proposition, but there are techniques and best practices that can be applied to help you define your offering as a MVP. The market demands may require more than one core piece of functionality to define MVP.

In this section, we will discuss the following topics:

  • How to build an MVP
  • Bringing components together to form an MVP
  • Applying MVP to enterprise

Building MVP

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