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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)

Do Things That Do Not Scale

Your very first goal, once you have an MVP, is to push that experiment through its first iteration cycle in order to test your hypothesis. At this stage, the primary purpose is validated learning. Only after you have proved your hypothesis should you consider scaling and optimization.

In the Lean model, improvement happens over time as a result of user feedback. When you make that feedback loop the centerpiece of your initial experiments, a nontraditional set of business practices begins to emerge.

Look at the following points:

  • How to acquire early adopters and establish a small-scale laboratory and why doing so can drastically improve your learning
  • How to maximize learning with some of the most popular wireframing and prototyping tools
  • How to balance the need for quality against speed-to-market requirements, budget requirements, or other limitations...