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Mobile Maturity Checklist
A market-leading app needs a solid approach to design, development and growth. Use this checklist to build the right environment for a successful app.
Considering building an app? Make sure you've got the right approach, from strategy and design to quality and growth.
What's included:
- How's you're overall business plan looking?
- Are you embracing modern research and mobile UI practices?
- Is your development team set up for success?
- Do you have the processes to avoid deterring users?
- Is your tech marketing stack up to scratch?
- Have you developed the right habits to work effectively?
A checklist to help you build your app.
Use this checklist to give you food-for-thought when building an app, or when you're trying to fix problems you're having with your existing app development.
Simply scan through the sections and tick the ones you feel you have covered, and then highlight ones where you think you may need to give it more thought. Read on to see how it may help you depending on why you're assessing your mobile readiness and maturity.
Thinking about building an app?
If you are considering building an app, the mobile maturity checklist will help you answer the following questions:
- Have I done enough strategic planning?
- Do I understand what goes into developing an app?
- What should we measure?
- How do we handle the finances?
- Should I build an internal development team or outsource?
- What app developer might be a good fit for me?
- How do mobile strategy, design and app development fit together?
Is your app development in trouble?
If you are struggling building an app, use the mobile maturity checklist and see how many items you can tick off. It can help you highlight areas for improvement and answer questions like:
- How could we change our plan to make it more robust?
- Is there anything we can do to improve our design process?
- Have we been customer-centric enough?
- Is the development team in a healthy place?
- Are we getting the right feedback from stakeholders?
- Have we invested enough in quality control?
“This is a highly opinionated list of practices you can use when planning or executing a mobile app for your organisation. Each section has items roughly ordered by importance and impact. Don't worry if you can't implement everything at once. Enjoy!”Tobin Harris, Managing Director
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