Applying MVP Principles when Developing Mobile Health Applications: An Exploratory Study on Selected mobile Applications and their Version History

Abstract

In an ever evolving and highly competitive mobile health application market, software developers and companies face the daunting challenge to streamline their development methods to be able to obtain and correctly interpret customer demands, in order to reduce wasted resources and reevaluate and improve their products to stay competitive within this volatile industry. This exploratory case study aims at identifying how mHealth developers deploy their products by applying buildmeasure- learn principles and how frequently a new minimumviable- product is released; along with analyzing which factors that triggers the continuous development of their products, if any significant amount of changes are driven by user-experience issues, stability enhancements, legislative requirements, compatibility demands or emerging technological possibilities providing opportunities for extended functionality; as well as investigating which basic functionality that should be considered vital to implement in an initial version of a minimum-viableproduct in this field.