How to balance product ideas and project constraints in application development


The goal of mobile application development is to create a product that offers something new and innovative. But as any product owner or project manager can attest, the definition of the vision of a mobile product must be compared with the limitations of the project.
It is easy to get carried away by your great idea. It is equally easy to lose sight of viability. If you do not take the time to fully define the purpose of your mobile application project, the functionality and requirements will be lost in the translation, and your great idea will not resemble the final product.
Achieving a balance between big product ideas and project constraints is based on a carefully designed Product Requirements Document (PRD). A PRD is a substructure for the entire mobile application and is used to communicate business logic, technical requirements and the flow of users to all those interested in the project. A PRD is the first step to ensure that your final product is as close as possible to your original idea.


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In the early stages of planning, the overview of the product is often still ambiguous. Working through a PRD forces you to think about all aspects of the product, what work is necessary to carry out the plan and any impact on the limitations of the project, such as scope, time and budget.

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·         Management of business requirements restrictions
·         Management of technical requirements Restrictions
·         Make the right product decisions
·         Reach the market faster with a PRD

Management of business requirements restrictions

A PRD helps you think critically about the business requirements of your application so that you and your stakeholders understand exactly what organizational objectives you are trying to achieve with the mobile application.
A good example is whether your mobile application will streamline a current process or provide a new one. If your business objective is to introduce a completely new process, the project term becomes an important factor in determining what is feasible for development; How many functions are required for the new process to be functional and can you develop that functionality in your particular time period? By working through the many considerations in a PRD, you will get more information about what is possible to develop within your desired time and budget.

Management of technical requirements Restrictions

A PRD is a necessary tool to make strategic decisions about technical requirements. The decisions you make about the platforms, the hosting and the design of the backend database have long-term implications if they are not given adequate attention. The backend of a mobile application is where the value is. It is essential to provide your product team with enough information to accurately transform your high-level idea into a functional and practical framework for development.
The architecture of the mobile application, for example, is essential to manage product restrictions. The architecture of a product serves as a model for the entire system and is indispensable for understanding, negotiation and communication among all interested parties. A robust architecture is built to adapt to change, and by planning technical requirements in advance, your development team can create a structure to effectively manage budget constraints and budget constraints.

Make the right product decisions

It is often a reality that restrictions on a given project mean that certain commitments must be made. However, teams must thoroughly evaluate and commit themselves as little as possible.
This is not a step towards approving an inferior product to be built, but simply a set of decisions that must be made under circumstances to work toward a realistic and achievable goal of building the best possible product that follows the scope, timeline and the cost of the project. When making decisions about products in these scenarios, we must ask ourselves a series of questions before moving on.

How long will it take to build?

This is a consistent question: capture the reason why we are considering a commitment. Is it necessary to adjust a feature that will take a few hours of development to build? Are there features that will potentially take weeks to build?

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