Mobile Project Planning

Instructions

Mobile projects fail most often from unclear scope and mismatched platform expectations, not from coding mistakes. Use this skill to turn a product idea into a buildable plan before any architecture or code decisions are locked in.

1. Capture the Problem, Not the Screens

Start with three artifacts, in this order:

1. Job stories -- "When , I want to , so I can ." One sentence each, no UI words.
2. Top-level KPIs -- what metric proves the app is working (D7 retention, conversion, session length, completion rate). One primary, two guardrails.
3. Non-goals -- written explicitly. What the app will not do in v1.

If the team is drafting screens before these exist, stop and back up.

2. Define the MVP Cut

An MVP is the smallest app that lets a real user get the core outcome end-to-end. Use the cut checklist: