subject: Top Reasons Causing Failure Of An Enterprise Mobile Application Development [print this page] Enterprises expect a lot from mobile appsEnterprises expect a lot from mobile apps. A handful of them succeed, whereas most fail. Mobile application development firms have yet to figure out a hard and fast checklist of dos and donts, but that does not mean an app for enterprise cannot be built with desired perfection.
This article covers some suggestions that help mobile application development firms deliver prefect apps to their clients. Here we go-
What goes wrong?
When an enterprise app fails, the project leaders are oftentimes personally blamed. Of course, they can be, because every project requires huge cost and time to finish-up and its failure causes inescapable loss to the enterprise.
Top 4 reasons causing failure of an enterprise mobile application development:
Building with no flexibility
When building an iPad app, for example, most of its content such as text, photos and brand elements are coded without considering the need of flexibility. This approach is a most useful path to obtain a foolproof app and agreed by both clients and developers. But they forget about a typo, product change, or the requirement of lessening or adding a piece of content.
Will enterprise re-engage developers and ask them to engineer the app again? Developers can make changes programmatically, but it increases expenses and is certainly an impractical approach too. When an enterprise deploys mobile developers on its project, it should ask them to develop the app with flexibilities. Both developers and enterprises need to know the dynamic nature of business content and then they should begin the project.
No innovation with technology and trend changes
Do not take the mobile application development as a civil construction project that will end one day and workers gather their tools and leave the site. It is actually a continual process. Innovations keep taking place even if the project ends-up. An enterprise app solution behaves like a living organism in a dynamic eco-system and thus users expect more additions and changes with arrival of new technologies.
So delivery of an enterprise application is not the end of the project but a phase of its lifecycle. You need to make out what innovations the software wants, with considering changes in technology and trend.
Too much creativity creates complexity
The app can also fail if you try to do too much with it. If you needlessly keep doing too much with the software, you can also fail to meet your own expectations. Things look easy and beautiful on paper or whiteboard, but they turn complex in the execution phase. Sometimes, enterprises mean creativity with complexity, and they want developers to do more. It can be a potential cause behind the failure of an app.
Trying to do nothing
Users want an app to do something unique that others cannot do. It is supposed to create time and cost savings too. But if the app falls short of expiations, it will not succeed and turn into a loss.
With these pointers, developers and enterprises can avoid failures.
