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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)

Fail fast – validate everything

The core fundamentals of MVP are to get user feedback, do user testing, and validate whether users are willing to use (and pay for) the product you are launching both before and throughout the entire product life cycle. Unfortunately, some teams get caught up with minimum/viable, and forget about validation altogether. Validated learning is the critical component that defines MVP, confirms market demand, and shapes future iterations and investment of time, revenue, and resources into your product. It is the best indicator of whether or not you should pivot and abandon a project before losing too much money and burning out resources, or persevere and keep forging ahead in the market. MVP is governed by a "fail fast and recover quickly" continuous validation model that ensures that teams remain hyperefficient in regards to time, resources...