Download: How to Build The Ultimate Go-to-Market Strategy For Your App
The majority of apps fail, regardless of the type of app, the company that releases it, or how good the idea behind it is. In fact, Gartner predicts that less than 1% of consumer mobile apps will be considered a financial success by their developers...
Strategy, Discovery & Prototyping: How FoCus Has Helped Our Clients
We’ve written in length about the importance of product discovery and definition and the benefits of mobile app prototyping. We do these phases with all of our clients as part of our end-to-end development process, but we also offer a service called Focus that specifically...
A Beginner’s Guide: POC vs. MVP vs. Prototype
Many companies struggle to decide whether creating a proof of concept (POC), prototype, or minimum viable product (or a combination) is the right route for their project. Understanding and properly utilizing these 3 different methods will ensure that your product idea is received well by...
How to Gain & Maintain Project Velocity
One of the major risks in software development is time. For a myriad of reasons, from aggressive (sometimes unrealistic) estimations to a fundamental misunderstanding of project scope versus team capacity, projects become delayed and deadlines are missed. In agile development, the concept of velocity was...
4 Essential Tools to Boost Team Collaboration
Miscommunication is common among both small and large teams, especially when there's a lack of cohesive work environment. If a business can’t effectively communicate internally among employees, they won’t be able to communicate with their external stakeholders, in turn, failing to meet their business goals....
Rethinking Process: Squad-Based Agile Development
In agile mobile app development, building a product should be a collaborative and transparent process. Our process is inspired by common agile philosophies such as Lean and Kanban, which help us deliver compelling mobile experiences for our users. Our custom squad-based development process at Clearbridge...
An Introductory Guide to Customer Journey Mapping
Many companies don’t adequately track the customer journey which is essential in order to adapt to changing customer behaviors. To ensure that your customer experience is as smooth as possible, it’s important to implement a customer-centric strategy that will turn customers into loyal brand followers....
The Essential Product Launch Checklist
Whether you’re launching a new product, undergoing a product relaunch, or updating your product, a launch can either save or cost you a lot of time and money. These 5 steps will help your team, whether large or small, maximize user retention, drive daily usage,...
The Step-By-Step Guide to Product Discovery
Product discovery is an important yet often overlooked aspect of product development. Too often, usability is emphasized at the expense of utility. While the former is crucial, it is empty without considering the latter. Product discovery is a process that helps us make sure we’re...
How to Build a Mobile App Requirements Document
A mobile app requirements document acts as the foundation of your product, outlining the business logic, listing the technical specifications, and ultimately guiding your team from early concepting stages to the final sprint. This post is going to walk you through how to build an effective mobile app...