How to Plan a Minimum Viable Product: Free MVP Template
For those just venturing into the world of mobile app development, MVP (minimum viable product) is a term you should familiarize yourself with fairly quickly. Not only will an MVP assist in validating your idea for a mobile product, but it will also provide direction...
Product Ideation: Building Innovation Into Your Development Process
Even in agile environments that encourage collaboration, product definition can become a siloed activity. In the day-to-day grind, with project teams focused on their particular tasks, the product owner bears the brunt of mapping out the product vision, often with little input from other members...
The 8 Wastes in Mobile App Development and How to Avoid Them
DOWNTIME is an acronym that is used to describe the 8 wastes of product development: Defects Overproduction Waiting Non-utilized talent Transportation Inventory Motion Excess Processing These wastes result in longer development cycles, affect the quality of products, can lead to scope creep, and increase project risk. This post will dive into...
Why Rolling Wave Planning is Essential in Mobile App Development
Rolling wave planning (also called just-in-time planning) is the practice of delaying product decisions until you are in the best position to make them. This doesn’t mean you don’t plan in advance; rather, you make more informed, actionable decisions as the product evolves and more...
Beyond Code: a Holistic Approach to Agile App Development
At Clearbridge, mobile app development doesn’t just mean coding and design. Our agile app development process is much more involved, encompassing strategy, development, QA, delivery, and maintenance. We take this comprehensive approach because you can’t make a successful product without all of these aspects included....
How to Drive Continuous Success With a Post-Launch Mobile App Strategy
The focus on mobile app projects is typically on launching, with little regard for what happens after launch. This isn’t surprising; launching a mobile app is very difficult, and the majority of a team’s effort will be spent on getting the product to market in...
How Flexibility in Mobile App Development Can Boost Product Quality
Projects fail for a myriad of reasons ranging from a lack of transparency during development to shortened project deadlines. The commonality between many project failures is a lack of flexibility with project constraints. Avoiding project failure, however, requires knowing exactly what causes the project to fail in the first place. The...
Key Challenges in Enterprise Mobile App Development: Employee-Facing Apps
This is the first of two articles on the key challenges of enterprise mobile app development. The second article to this two-part series discusses the challenges to developing and shipping customer-facing enterprise mobile apps. In the enterprise mobility space, there are a myriad of strategies and...
Choosing the Right Go-to-Market Strategy For Your App
Whether you’re the founder of a startup or part of a large enterprise, a great app idea will only take you so far. The reality is that most apps fail: <1% of consumer mobile apps will be considered a financial success by their developers through...
App Delivery: Partnering With a Firm vs. In-House Development
As more organizations look to ramp up mobile development efforts, many are struggling with a key decision: do we keep mobile efforts in-house, or find a mobile app development firm to partner with? This is not a question that is easily answered. In fact, it...