- IT managers don’t know where to start when initiating a mobile program.
- IT has tried mobile development in the past but didn't achieve success.
- IT must initiate a mobile program quickly based on business priorities and needs a roadmap based on best practices.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Form factors and mobile devices won't drive success – business alignment and user experience will. Don't get caught up with the latest features in mobile devices.
- Software emulation testing is not true testing. Get on the device and run your tests.
- Cross form-factor testing cannot be optimized to run in parallel. Therefore, anticipate longer testing cycles for cross form-factor testing.
Impact and Result
- Prepare your development, testing, and deployment teams for mobile development.
- Get a realistic assessment of ROI for the launch of a mobile program.
Enter Into Mobile Development Without Confusion and Frustration Research & Tools
Besides the small introduction, subscribers and consulting clients within this management domain have access to:
1. Make the Case for a Mobile Program
Understand the current mobile ecosystem. Use this toolkit to help you initiate a mobile development program.
- Storyboard: Enter Into Mobile Development Without Confusion and Frustration
2. Assess Your Dev Process for Readiness
Review and evaluate your current application development process.
3. Prepare to Execute Your Mobile Program
Prioritize your mobile program based on your organization’s prioritization profile.
- Mobile Program Tool
4. Communicate with Stakeholders
Summarize the execution of the mobile program.
- Project Status Communication Worksheet
Workshop: Enter Into Mobile Development Without Confusion and Frustration
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
1 Build your Future Mobile Development State
The Purpose
Understand the alignment of stakeholder objectives and priorities to mobile dev IT drivers.
Assess readiness of your organization for mobile dev.
Understand how to build your ideal mobile dev process.
Key Benefits Achieved
Identify and address the gaps in your existing app dev process.
Build your future mobile dev state.
Activities
1.1 Getting started
1.2 Assess your current state
1.3 Establish your future state
Outputs
List of key stakeholders
Stakeholder and IT driver mapping and assessment of current app dev process
List of practices to accommodate mobile dev
2 Prepare and Execute your Mobile Program
The Purpose
Assess the impact of mobile dev on your existing app dev process.
Prioritize your mobile program.
Understand the dev practice metrics to gauge success.
Key Benefits Achieved
Properly prepare for the execution of your mobile program.
Calculate the ROI of your mobile program.
Prioritize your mobile program with dependencies in mind.
Build a communication plan with stakeholders.
Activities
2.1 Conduct an impact analysis
2.2 Prepare to execute
2.3 Communicate with stakeholders
Outputs
Impact analysis of your mobile program and expected ROI
Mobile program order of execution and project dependencies mapping
List of dev practice metrics