← App development guidesHow to scope your first app
Choose a useful first release.
A practical guide to defining users, workflows and acceptance criteria before commissioning an MVP.
Discuss your app ↗01
Name the user and the problem.
Choose one user and one problem. Describe what success looks like.
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Map the whole journey.
Map the steps from first action to confirmation, including the admin work.
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Separate essentials from later ideas.
Keep what completes the journey. Save extra roles, reports and integrations for later.
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Make completion testable.
Agree clear examples of success, access rules and what happens when something fails.
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Prepare a short brief.
Bring your workflow, example data, integrations and constraints. We help shape the scope.