Common App Development Challenges That Will Kill Your Project
While every app development project comes with its own challenges, there are a few that tend to surface time and again, regardless of the nature of the project itself. This post looks at three of the most common app development challenges that will kill your...
4 Reasons You’re Missing Product Deadlines
Even with solid planning at project kick-off, experienced project teams with the necessary talent, and seemingly reasonable launch goals, many products still miss delivery deadlines. While this is a reality that’s more common than teams and stakeholders would like, there are steps that can effectively...
The Importance of Flexibility in Agile Development
The project management triangle is comprised of three project constraints or boundaries: time, scope, and cost. The best product companies understand that flexibility is often required on at least one of these boundaries. As needs and objectives evolve, knowing which boundary is flexible lets you...
Deliver Quickly, Deliver Often: Why App Submission is Only The Beginning
Shipping a product is a big benchmark, but initial release is just the beginning. Expecting an app to perform well, drive downloads, and have sustained usage without working to improve the product is a mistake that is all-too-common. The “publish and pray” approach has two major...
Building for Long-Term Success: The Principles of Sustainable App Development
A major challenge in product development is creating an app that is built with longevity in mind. With OS updates, changing market conditions, and continually increasing competition, many apps become irrelevant quickly – it’s a reality of the industry. // While there is no manual for future-proofing...
7 Mobile App Onboarding Tips That Increase User Retention
Having an effective mobile app onboarding experience is critical. Great user onboarding not only lowers abandonment rates but can also help boost long-term success metrics like user retention and user lifetime value. - // This post describes the best practices for creating an effective user onboarding...
The Benefits of Squad-Based Agile Development
At Clearbridge, we use a custom agile process that allows us to deliver great products with low risk and predictable project velocity. Part of what makes this process so effective is the use of squads. Squads – a concept inspired by Spotify’s engineering culture –...
Low Risk, High Predictability: Why We Created Our Custom Agile Process
Successful products are born from more than just strong technical and design capabilities. You can build a product with great functionality and beautiful design, but that product could have gone over budget, been released late, and gone beyond scope. That’s why process is equally, if...
The Biggest Mobile Trends of 2015
Over the course of 2015, mobile continued to grow by leaps and bounds. This year saw a number of developments that laid the framework for an explosive 2016 and set the foundation for mobile to become a driver of growth and innovation in a number...
Ad Declaration Will Soon be Required for all Android Apps
Google has begun reaching out to developers asking them to declare if their apps include ads, a move that has extended last year’s Designed for Families ad-labelling initiative to all Google Play app download pages. After January 11, 2016, developers will no longer be able...