At Boldare, we deliver high quality digital product development through a combination of the lean startup approach and the agile scrum framework. The foundation of our process is a rigorous product discovery exercise at the beginning of every project, resulting in a clear (and agreed) product vision to keep the project on track.
Mobile apps are one of the must-have revenue-generating tools for many different industries. The data shows that apps convert up to three times more traffic into sales, achieving a conversion rate of 6% on average, which is genuinely satisfactory compared to mobile websites' results (1.5-2%). The data speaks for itself - most of your direct competitors are already investing heavily in their digital presence - building e-commerce platforms or mobile apps, taking advantage of the growing demand for digital services of various kinds, which in the age of the ongoing pandemic is crucial for business. So, it's high time to consider what you can do to put the icing on the cake and boost your business with mobile applications, or any other digital product.
Embarking on a new business venture, expanding your business into new areas is inherently risky. To minimize that risk, it helps to have a clear picture of the factors influencing the situation, both external (customers, market, competition, etc.) and internal (people, skills, resources…) The business model canvas is an easily understood and easy-to-use tool that allows you to map the forces impacting on your new direction. Read on to find out just what the business model is, how it can benefit your venture, and how it works.
This article seeks to define and disentangle the approaches commonly used in digital product development: Agile, Design Thinking, and Lean Startup. Check it out!
Today, many software companies are feeling the pressure of the market, constant competition, and the need to meet ever-increasing customer expectations to proliferate and deliver better and more advanced products. The resulting need for constant and vigorous evolution means that many product and software development teams must face the problem of technical debt. How to deal with it?
Working remotely has undoubtedly saved many businesses over the last six months or so. For some companies, it was their core survival tactic when the coronavirus pandemic hit. But working remotely can also have some drawbacks, especially for those involved in digital product development. Switching to a dispersed model can often put teamworking under stress: communication suffers, people aren’t sure what their colleagues are working on and previous levels of information-sharing aren’t enough in a remote, VUCA business environment. The result is declining efficiency. What’s the solution? For us it’s the radical transparency we have practiced for a long time. Read on to see how your organization can benefit from it as well.
Auditing the code and UX of your app, website or any digital product might be crucial for your business. Strategically speaking, there are key stages in the development and life cycle of any digital product when auditing the code (and more widely) is more of a priority. This article identifies those key stages and tells you what you should be expecting from an audit by way of outcomes. Furthermore, you can discover why a code audit should offer significantly more than a simple code review of the product.
The crisis is here. Nobody knows how long it will stay with us. The only thing we know for certain is that you can either face it on your own terms or passively wait until it’s gone. The more agile and conscious of upcoming changes your company is, the more likely it is to emerge from the crisis stronger. But how to embrace this opportunity? Read the first of three articles based on Boldare’s three-part Crash Course webinar series, “Risk Management In Software And Digital Product Development” to learn how and get inspired.
If you work with the scrum framework (and if you don’t yet, you should still read on!), you already know that the sprint review meeting is an essential step for software development. It’s a chance for the whole team to take a look at what they’ve produced – the latest product iteration – and ensure that the project is on track, as planned or… if it isn’t. It’s an opportunity to discuss and agree what needs to happen by way of course correction. This article offers a guide to setting up and structuring your sprint review meetings for success.
If you’re based in or near Dubai and you need digital product development services, where do you look? The city’s freelance market is growing rapidly. However, depending on the needs of your particular project, that market may not give you what you want. Looking further afield, dedicated outsourcing providers can offer a more suitable alternative. Why and how?
There are many web design companies in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates and throughout the whole Middle East region. Most web design companies in Dubai use local talent and are focused more on the software development element of building web products.
One of the biggest challenges for the Gulf region is the growing demand for high quality software and IT services. Want to know how to find a trustworthy and experienced software company able to deliver great products to the Middle East market? Let’s find out!
The idea of the MVP has been around in the business world for a while and it is inseparably linked with lean startup methodology. Before we jump into the details, let’s focus on a practical definition of a Minimum Viable Product to help us to understand what’s really important here.
Ask yourself, what do you expect from your potential partner in a digital product development process? Is it security for your business? Long-term business partnership? Fair price? High-quality services?
Scaling is a process of applying significant changes to a product incrementally to ensure it is perfectly suited to a long-term market presence. Scaling is all about focused product enhancements while the product is in use. Scaling teams are focused on rapid, stable improvements.
Allocating workload to external teams is a very popular way of developing digital products in every industry. You can be really picky when choosing the company that will suit your organization best and guarantee the good performance. However, sometimes the company you choose does not fulfill your expectations when it comes to reaching the goals of your project. What then?
Metrics and measurement are at the heart of the lean startup approach and agile methods of product development. Yet measurement alone is not enough – success comes from measuring the right things. However, as Eric Ries, author of “The Lean Startup” has pointed out, there are vanity metrics and there are actionable metrics. Which are useful?
The design sprint method is a great tool for digital product development. That’s why, when it’s a fit with a project, we at Boldare use it to create a shared understanding of the client’s product and rapidly develop a useful prototype. Design sprints carry a number of benefits, some specific to the project and other longer term advantages for the organization that uses them.
