Failing To Scale Good Engineering Teams

Successful MVPs brings unprecedented business growth and presents challenges in scaling engineering teams to match the growth. Finding and accessing top percentile talent with diverse functional and technology skills is a significant growth driver for innovation. With 225+ inhouse technology team, Mobisoft can strengthen resources and bring flexibility in technology and service to underpin the startup business strategic direction.

Failing To Make Agile And DevOps Real

Adopting Agile and DevOps practices requires tools that not only reinforces the processes, but also helps with faster development and change management. Change the fundamentals of building modern multi-platform apps with tools that enable development teams to write once and run anywhere.

Our Agile methodology coupled with the DevOps approach helps startups quickly test new customer journeys, learn to deliver a different and engaging user experience in uncertain markets, achieve quicker time to value, and achieve increased ability to innovate.

Should I Really Build This Product?

Building the MVP starts with learning the problem and customer. During this customer discovery process, it’s important to talk to as many people as possible to make sure your idea is promising. Product idea MUST solve a specific or widespread problem(s) within a market that’s large enough to sustain you and all your competitors serving the same target.

Remember, you might have uncovered a unique problem, but that doesn’t mean you’re the only one working towards a solution. Everyone thinks his or her idea is the winner, but there’s a good chance someone has already attempted what you’re trying to accomplish.

Ask yourself why you’re equipped to solve this problem better than anyone else. It could be your unique expertise, go to market strategy, your technology, or just you being in the right place at the right time. If you have a solution for a unique problem, define yourself and quickly go to market.

If you’re going up against a large incumbent however, take additional time to develop a strategy on how you will compete before you go to market.

Build And Learn With An MVP

Once you’ve identified your problem and target audience, you must develop a minimum viable product that allows you to measure your customers’ responses, learn, and iterate quickly.

Don’t focus on the features; an MVP is about delivering the primary benefit. The worst thing you can do is stuff your user interface with bloated features when you’re still unsure whether you’re correctly solving the problem.

Remember, the “how” behind your product is just as important as the “why.” Dropbox used a short video to explain why its product would be great and how it would work before it even launched. Early adopters were so impressed that a simple video gained Dropbox thousands of subscribers.

Dropbox was able to save time and money by testing the waters with this simple MVP. Your MVP won’t be perfect, so you need to establish a good feedback loop to help you know when to persevere, pivot, or abandon your path entirely.

Lean Startup

We believe that every startup (and every business) should be a grand experiment that tests product ideas against consumer demand. We advocate targeting a problem and then developing a minimum viable product to begin the process of learning, and perhaps failing, as quickly as possible.

Mobisoft has mature processes that follow the lean startup methodologies to help you as a startup. As startups and businesses of all sizes begin to adopt lean startup concepts and release MVPs. Shortening product development cycles and driving down costs, while also delivering increasingly better MVPs along the way. MVP also serves an intent to exhibit product to investors for raising funds.