Mobile App Development Team: Tips, Structure, and Roles
In this article, we unlock the secret to a well-organized app development team by sharing principles for structuring your team, assigning roles and responsibilities, and picking the right specialists to successfully develop your app. We’ll introduce you to five ways of recruiting developers to your team and compare their cost-efficiency to enable you to plan your budget. More on this below, so stay with us!
Mobile app development team structure
When you’re looking at how to build a mobile app development team, you first should define what specialists you need and how many. As the size of an app development team depends on the complexity and scale of a project, let’s start with the basic number of specialists required for developing an average mobile app:
- 1 project manager / product manager
- 1 UI/UX designer
- 1 iOS developer / 1 Android developer
- 1 backend developer
- 1 quality assurance engineer
Project manager / product manager
When you come to a mobile app development company with your app idea, you’ll be assigned a project manager (PM) to be your assistant and your link to developers. A project manager takes responsibility for a project from start to finish within the agreed budget, time, and quality.
Product manager is often mistakenly used as a synonym for project manager. But while these two specialists are both managers, they carry out different tasks and have different responsibilities. The difference is in what they’re managing — a project vs a product. A project is finite, with a clear plan of activities and specified start and end dates. A product needs to generate continuous value for users and has no time limits.
A project manager focuses primarily on the performance of the app development process, adherence to deadlines, and quality standards based on the product manager’s vision.
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