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4 Ways API and Mobile App Development Teams Can Work Together To Ensure Security
Mobile represents new risks and unique attack vectors that require the focus of the whole organization, not just one team Underwriters Laboratories (UL) rates safes on the length of time it would take an attacker with normal tools to break in and steal your valuables. In addition, most safes are bolted to the floor from within the …
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Gamification and Your Mobile App Development
How to perfect gamification in your app. Gamification is one of the most popular buzzwords when discussing mobile app strategy. So what does it mean? Gamification is the application of game mechanics to non-game contexts, encouraging action and rewarding accomplishments. Over the past few years, more and more product owners have come to me asking …
BDD/Cucumber Basics: Make Your Business Rules Concrete; Leave Your Implementation Details Abstract
Choosing the right level of concrete vs. abstract will help you derive the most value from Cucumber and BDD. I recently attended an amazing Cucumber workshop. During the training Aslak Hellesoy, the inventor of Cucumber, used a simple exercise to encourage people to make their examples more concrete. He would ask for someone to name …
Why Mobile Apps Should be Seen as Products, Not One-Off Initiatives
Mobile apps are incredibly intentional media. Users must search the app store for your app, download it, open it and then return to it. If you’re asking a user to go through all that effort, there has to be a compelling reason for them to do so. If your app doesn’t have a clear goal, …
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How CTOs and Managers Can Help Their Engineers be Great at Mobile App Development
Provide the best tools, carve out time to learn, and remove distractions and obstacles. There’s an adage that to earn a small fortune in the stock market you only need one thing: start with a large one. Similarly, if you want your engineers to do great work, it’s a good idea to hire great engineers. …
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Using Libraries in Mobile App Development
Here’s how your reusable code can be made easier with libraries. If your organization has more than a single app or a number of common areas of functionality/APIs, you need to think of how to manage your codebase smarter by using reusable libraries. Too often libraries are thought of as exclusively open-source projects that solve …
More Reasons Agile is the Best Choice for Your Mobile App Development
Seven mistakes to avoid when going Agile. Agile has been both evangelized for its ability to allow for rapid delivery of product, and dismissed as chaotic. After years of frustration with traditional project management, I have grown to love Agile. The speed with which you can complete projects, and the ability to manage cost and …
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Jobs-to-be-Done and Your Mobile App Development
The central question of your mobile app development should be, “What job is the customer hiring my mobile app to do?” While this may seem like an obvious starting point, I have rarely seen companies employ the “getting the job done” test while developing their mobile app. Below are the “do’s” and “don’ts” to make …
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