We cover the best practices and approaches to consider once you decide to hire a mobile app agency and making the most of the partnership.
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We’ll turn your idea into a complete software product regardless of scale.
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Next steps
We only take on projects we have the capacity to deliver to exceptional standards – and we never abandon you part-way through.
Over a relaxed call or two, we’d like to hear as much as possible about your project (fully NDA’d of course).
We’ll talk about:
- Your expectations
- Your deadlines
- Your vision
If we both feel we’re a great fit for each other, we can move on to the next step.
There are a few steps in this phase:
- We’ll hand-pick a team based on your desired seniority level and other requirements.
- We’ll send you their CVs so you’ll know every engineer working for you.
- If necessary, we can set up interviews between you and every engineer.
Only when you’re 100% on board with our choice, we’ll go to the next phase.
If everything sounds good to you, we’re ready to get started.
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Yes, in fact our product discovery is designed to work with agile development methods.
During our process, we plan out sprints for agile teams and objectives that need to be achieved with each one.
In the team-based model, we’ll attach our engineers to your existing teams or give you a specialized dedicated team. For example, if you need five iOS engineers to augment your team, that’s what we’ll do. Or you could need a whole self-managed dedicated team of web app developers. The focus of this model is to fill skill gaps in your teams.
In the product-based model, we focus on your product as a whole. All you have to do is share your software product idea, and we’ll turn it into reality from start to finish. That means we’ll have product managers, UX/UI designers, solution architects, and software engineers all working on your product without you needing to go elsewhere or hire internally. This model focuses on creating a profitable and impactful software product.
The time and materials model is the best fit. Why? Here you actually pay for the effort your dedicated team puts into your project. Let’s say 5 experts work for 6 months, that’s 30 engineering months of effort. That is the figure you should be comparing, not just the cost.
The cost then should more-less directly relate to the efforts, so if someone charges 30 USD/hr or 90 USD/hr it makes the difference. That means there’s no fear of overhead costs.
Also, time and materials is much cheaper than having in-house developers. You don’t have to pay additional expenses such as recruiting, benefits, health insurance etc.
This video demonstrates exactly that:
Other examples include:
- When Apple removed Fling’s app from the App Store, we jumped on a plane to London the very next day to work 72 hours, non-stop. As our CEO said at the time: “I couldn’t be prouder of the team for making Fling even better than before, especially under such pressure.”
- We flew to Dusseldorf to present an app to the Vodafone tech team in person.
- We’ve prioritized CVs for a new addition to a client’s in-house iOS team. DECODE’s engineers sorted through them, analyzed the code and suggested the best candidates for the interview.
As for our team, we have weekly dev Scrums, daily stand-ups, all the people are together in one office, and we actively use Slack, Skype, Google Hangouts, GitHub, Bitbucket and more…
This varies based on many elements including app platforms (iOS, Android or both), app complexity, feature list, business logic, developer team location, native app vs. cross-platform app development, cloud infrastructure, etc.
The cost of an app depends upon the number of features or customizations needed, timelines for app development and experience of the team or company you are hiring. It is always a good idea to ask companies for a ballpark quote so that you can compare the different options you have regarding cost and quality.
A basic mobile app for 1 platform could cost between $30,000 – $50,000
A medium-complexity mobile app for 1 platform, $50,000 – $150,000
A complex mobile app for 1 platform could cost more than $150,000
Developing a mobile app will depend on various factors like native app development vs. cross-platform app development, design complexity, developer(s)’ experience, app features, functionality, testing, etc.
Based on our experience most of the apps can be developed in anywhere between three months to six months. Contact us with your development requirements and we’ll give you an estimated time and app development cost.
We can provide you with any number of IT experts you need from our team of 70+ people.
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