Understanding the business requirements being fulfilled by application development is what we
cover under our consultation and assessment service.
Consultation is followed by a process of rigorous planning to build a strong theoretical foundation
for the further steps of application development.
Agile Methodology has proven to be the one of the best approaches to develop a stable application.
At Anuyat, we address planning an application with
five extensive steps –
Let us paint the picture for you with an example of building an Application for an Online
Rental App.
Step
01 :As a business owner, you must have already researched the potential of your idea. The product you wish to develop must solve a particular problem that you may think exists among your target group.
Online Rental App
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An online platform for multiple sellers and buyers to rent the new or used stuff.
We add more to your research with our scoping process.
The scope of a product tries to answer a few elementary questions before diving into
building an full-fledged functional product.
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This question must have limited answers, probably one or two. This clarity is of utmost importance.
Your Online Rental App can provide n-numbers of advanced features, but we need to limit the app to a single business objective, i.e. Sellers should be able to list the products to sell & buyers should be able to buy those products.
Core business objective: Multiple sellers & buyers can do rental transactions.
That is a good start and a base to build your market-ready product.
Again, limit your customer personas to a minimum; we narrow down the audience for your product to build a focused application that caters to the requirement of that group only.
Instead of asking what features they would need in our proposed product, we ask them questions that better understand their pain points.
From here onwards, we will understand this group’s:
User Personas
User Problems
The brainstorming leads to a high-level process flow for the identified users' activities on the platform.
Something like this:
Things seem to come out together from hereon, where we can slide into shaping the features that would be part of the application's first phase.
We follow the prioritization- matrix to understand what features should make a cut for the first launch and which ones should wait for future iterations.
For our Online Renting App, we can define the “User visits the App” feature into sub-sections:
User visits the App
User search for products in the search box
User browse through the categories & sub-categories
User uses filter options
User select seller's category
User uses review function
We carry on with this schema for the rest of the process flows, and for each of the sub-features, assign a value, based on the following:
At the end of the scoping an application process, we are ready with the set of features that are “must-haves” for the first launch of the product.
Step
02 :The SRS is shared with our clients for discussion, approvals, and moving to the next exciting level.
This document will act as a blueprint for Anuyat’s development team and the clients.
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Effort and time go into designing a perfect SRS document. An exceptional SRS document must have all the touchpoints needed for the reference of the application developers and the clients.
Here is what you can expect from a nicely done SRS:
Step
03 :SRS is a compact document that provides a high-level understanding of the system or application to be built. Creating user stories is a more technical part of planning an application.
Anuyat’s SRS document scopes out the user-level details to lay out the blueprint for interactive elements or the actors of the application product.
Let us see how we plan the high-level user stories:
Let us see how we plan the high-level user stories:
a) Map out the user journey(s)
b) “Pain and gain” map for each action
This defining of user journey helps generate the application's flow, along with focusing on the core value proposition for the target audience.
Step
04 :For a customizable application scope, you would need an expert consultation to understand the approximate cost of building the product and the duration.
Internally, our project management team maintains a sprint document, which contains the detailed structure of the weekly and daily tasks of the project.
The estimated timelines come with a few assumptions and constraints, which are also defined clearly in the SRS document.
Step
05 :After rigorous planning, discussions, and approvals, the application is ready for prototyping and development.
But wait, before we share this document with our design and wireframing experts, there is one more thing to plan – project management.
Anuyat uses modern-day, highly advanced projects and agile task management tools such as Confluence, Asana, Trello, ClickUp, GitScrum, Jira, etc.
These tools help us maintain the team workspace and effectively communicate the progress of the project with stakeholders and clients.
These tools help us maintain the team workspace and effectively communicate the progress of the project with stakeholders and clients.
The plan for an MVP focuses on the steps that get you closer to “need to have” MVP features rather than “Nice to have” ones.
Anuyat’s MVP scope estimation calculator helps our customers and other users identify the cost and time needed for transforming their idea into an MVP. It is a self-help platform.
As a promise, Anuyat works on “MVP in 90 days” principle - from an idea to a market-product fit, in just 90 days.
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