App Development Report for Company X: Objectives and Requirements

This report analyzes the development of a mobile application for Company X, a food products provider, to gain a competitive advantage by attracting more customers. It outlines the objectives, including functional requirements like displaying product information and attracting customers with offers, structural requirements involving market analysis and app design, and resource requirements such as app icons and descriptions. The report emphasizes the importance of mobile apps in today's market, where customers increasingly rely on mobile devices for information and purchasing decisions. It details the steps required for developing a strong mobile app, from analyzing the market to launching and maintaining the application. The report concludes that mobile applications are crucial for businesses to thrive in the current market, highlighting the importance of clear objectives and thorough planning for successful app development.

Running Head: App Development 1
SME product development

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Objectives........................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
The customers are now going advanced and using mobile application platforms to be
updated. They are using mobile phones; tablets are other mobile devices to gather the necessary
information. That is the reason mobile applications are so important in the current market. It
must be understood that by the mobile applications, customers are able to have all the
information at their fingertips. Along with this, it is crucial to have mobile phones in the
workplace to enhance the customer base for the success of the business. no matter what is
business is, mobile apps are helpful in getting and retaining more customers as customers go
online for searching the product or service. If the business is available online and company has
mobile application then business will make good impression among the customers. To get
competitive advantage, Company X needs to develop a mobile application for their customers to
use. On the basis of some key facts, it is analyzed that people are spending more time on the
mobile phones. Due to mobile applications, 62% of the population of world can change their
mind on any specific brand. If any brand is providing opportunity for the mobile access to the
customers then customers will have positive perception for that particular brand. This report
provides an understanding of necessary requirements for developing mobile application in the
Company X (Baldwin, 2016).
Objectives
Every project should have a clear objectives and purposes. In this case, Company X has
also some specific objectives while developing mobile applications for the business operations.
Effective objectives in the project management are specific. Specific objectives for the business
improve the chances for specific results. So, objective should be clear and should improve the
relations with the customers. There are three basic objectives i.e. functional requirements,
structural requirements and resource requirements (Purvis, 2016).
Functional requirements-
The functional requirement deals with the specification of the product to satisfy the
fundamental reasons for the existence. In case of Company X, mobile application can be
considered as the product. Developing mobile application is essential for the company to have

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competitive advantage among the customers. By developing the mobile application, aim of the
company is allows the customers to find out the offered products to the customers on the online
platforms. The functional requirements deal with the business requirements i.e. attracting more
and more customers for the food products. Based on the business requirements of Company X,
the functional requirements for the mobile applications are as follows:
 To check customers’ requirements and demands, to check the real time market price and
to receive the information about the location of the potential customers,
 To advertise the products and services among the potential customers in the market,
 To indicate product distribution to the customers based on the requirements and quantity,
 To display the real time prices of the food products in the market, and
 To attract the customer base by providing offers and discounts and achieve competitive
advantage in the market.
Structural requirements-
To develop the mobile app for Company X, it is important to have structure of the
requirements which is essential in the process. Undoubtedly, mobile app development process is
a costly and complex process. There are some steps which are required for developing strong
mobile app for the company i.e. analyzing the market, deciding the type of app, forecasting the
budget, and execution the mobile app. These all steps are equally important. From the
perspective of development and implementation of application, there are some requirements with
the structure which must be fulfilled by the developers (Khorkov, 2017). Those steps are
described below:
 Analyze the customers’ persona and customer journey map,
 Sketching or wire framing of the app,
 User interface design,
 Planning to development,
 Clickable prototype,
 Development process,
 Quality assurance, and
 Launch, maintenance and support (Ghiciuc, 2017)

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Resource requirements-
In the resource requirements, there are some necessary resources to develop the mobile
app for the Company X. There are some general assets which must be required for the app
development. Company would need icons of supported size i.e. iOS @1x, @2x images and
Android i.e. mdpi, hdpi, xhdpi etc. Further, there would be the need of Splash screens of
supported sizes, screenshots in the correct sizes with the required languages. For developing the
app, there would be the requirement of app descriptions along with the required languages,
search keywords in the required language and list of supported devices and the OS version
(Vliet, 2007). In the Google Play store, there would be the need of Google play developer access,
store listing name, description of paid or free access, short description, full description, App
icon, App type, category, feature graphics, content ratings, contact email, privacy policy and
screenshots etc (Dave, 2017).
Building mobile application is complex and long process. Apart from investing the money, it
includes long-term commitment with the customers. At the research and analysis stage, the
mobile application development can take few months. It depends upon the type of app the
company wants to build based on analyzing the end-users and its unique value proposition which
is mandatory.
Conclusion
Based on above description, it is observed that mobile applications are now important for
every business as companies are able to achieve competitive advantage in the operating markets.
Customers are now active on the online platforms to compare one brand from others. Based on
the online access, they have perception about specific product and brand. For this manner,
Company X, a food products provider is going develop a mobile application so that the company
can attract large customer base. It is observed that every project must have clear objectives. In
this way, there are three basic objectives for developing the mobile app i.e. functional
requirements including basic functions of mobile app, Structural requirements including basic
structure of developing and implementation process and Resource requirements including the
necessary and required resources to develop he mobile app like Google play developer access,
store listing name, description of paid or free access, short description etc.

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