How To Balance Product Ideas & Project Constraints
The goal of any project is to create an end product that offers something new and innovative. But as any product owner or project manager can attest to, the way we imagine end products needs to be weighed against the constraints of a project. Managing this...
3 Awesome Tools That Increase Transparency in Agile Development
Following our post on the importance of transparency in the agile development process, we received a number of questions about the “how”. While we can’t speak for everybody, we can give insight into our process. Here are a list of the tools we use to...
The Top 5 Reasons Transparency is Important in App Development
Transparency, in any project, means open and honest communication of a project's status in as close to real-time as possible. In our agile mobile app development process, it ensures an open forum where stakeholders and the entire delivery team are given total access to the status of all...
Stories vs. Spec Docs
As any experienced product owner, business analyst, or project manager knows, product definition can be an arduous process. Finalizing product details, prioritizing what needs to be completed, even relaying the specifications to the development team all takes time. The question is, how can all of...
Maintaining User Stories & The Difficulties With Change
The Necessity of User Stories In agile scrum software development, we write user stories to capture the requirements of an individual feature within a software project. User stories are an effective way of capturing the necessary functionality of an entire product. Typically, stories should follow the format...
How Long Does it Take to Build a Mobile App Using Agile Scrums?
If you’ve ever considered building a mobile app, you’ve inevitably wondered exactly how long it would take. Many sources claim that it takes about 4 months, with 10 weeks of back-end development, followed by 8 weeks of front-end development. Although this is an estimate based...