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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)

MVP is Always More Minimal Than You Think

The M in MVP stands for Minimum, not Maximum. If your idea of MVP incorporates every potential use case, every potential mix of audience, all facets of available functionality, and creates a backlog that would take a development team longer than 90 days to complete, you don't have Minimum Viable Product. On the contrary, you have a different beast altogether that all too many times bring teams to their knees causing unnecessary rework, lost cycles, lost revenue, and all the other dysfunctional misery that comes with working on a product that isn't well defined and validated with its users.

In written context, the idea of defining MVP seems simple; the challenges surface when teams try to outline and define what minimal means in terms of their initial product release. "How Minimal is Minimal?", "Can I have multiple...