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
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Management of technical requirements
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Make the right product decisions
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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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