How to Write a Great Scope of Work for a Mobile App Development Project!

As an individual, you make sure that you plan out your day. You can make constructive decisions and your time is managed effectively. Planning makes you distribute your resources evenly. You may have even noticed that planning makes you achieve the maximum amount of productivity in the day! True, right?

Planning and Productivity go hand in hand and enable you to attain your objectives and get the best of yourself. 

So the same thing applies to the Scope of Work (SOW) for a mobile app development project! 

You have a brilliant idea and the very requirement to kick off your million dollar app idea requires a great scope of work and a great android app development firm in Chicago for android application, and for iOS, you have to find a great iOS app developers like us. 

While you want to accomplish your app idea in the best possible way, a great Scope Of Work (SOW) can be a catalyst to make your idea to be the preferred solution for millions of users. 

This article will be your guide on how to write a great Scope of Work (SOW) to convey your idea appropriately to your Mobile App Development Company. Because we at Cerdonis Technologies know how apprehensive the whole development project can get if the scope of work is not set properly!

Well, if one of you is looking for a startup then let us explain to you,

WHAT IS SCOPE OF WORK?

The Scope of Work is as simple as planning out your day specifically, but if you don’t get it correct then your desired results may be unsatisfactory and even it may result in delays and discrepancies or even something substandard! 

Scope of Works are documents that are a detailed description of the works which need to be executed for the app.

It should be project-specific and should have an answer to all the questions like - 

What specific activities need to be accomplished
way it should be processed
deliveries to be made
timelines for all the tasks

The more specific SOW, the more superior will be the end product. 

Steps to writing a great Scope of Work.

Introduction of the Project

Your SoW should first include a brief introduction of the concept you want the mobile app development to work on. It should have details like what is your project based on, how should the project work, the users you want to target, and a brief business model.

A couple of paragraphs would do for the introduction of the project.

The first section of your SOW should describe your project. 

For eg, If you want to build an app that allows users to book a cab from anywhere. Then firstly, you should write that I want my audience to book a taxi anywhere from their android or iOS phone. 

The second detail should be how you want to make it work- by making your users set up a pickup location, choosing the cab, look out for available cabs near their location, fair prices, etc.

The third detail you should necessarily include in your SOW is - the audience you wish to target. In a taxi booking app, if you wish to target customers professionals from 20-35 age then you have to include the targeting strategies which will influence the users to use the apps. 

The business models you wish to implement is a very vital detail in your SOW. Suppose if you wish to opt for a taxi booking app, then you should choose the mode of payment for your customers in the app. To pay with Cash or digital method will be your brief business model. This will help your users to pay with any method that’s possible for them.

Types of Technical Section you as our client is looking for

Suppose you want to include a list of students in different classes in your app or your website. Then to get those features in your desired end product you will have to specifically mention the technical solution.

To get your technical solutions right, you can convey it through charts, diagrams, graphics, videos, or past app examples! This way you will help your developing company to achieve your expected end product. 

Even make sure you list all the technical solutions through bulletin points. You must tell what mobile platform you want your app/ website to be operated on. Programming systems of Android and iOS differ largely so you must tell initially to avoid unnecessary delays.

Features you want to see in your app at the back end 

You want your users to first fill register themselves through an account? Then mention that in your Scope of Work (SOW). This helps your developers to develop your app step by step. All of the back-ends features like signing in, user registration, logistics pieces of information, etc can be mentioned beforehand so that your app’s front-end processes without any glitches.

Which users you want to give access to your app?

Apps can be of different categories and with categories users also differ from app to app. So to make the Scope of Work (SOW) more precise and clear, you should list out the types of users who will use your app.

If you are looking forward to investing in - food delivery app then your business type would be a B2C (Business-to-Customers). Well, it can even be B2B (Busines-to-business) partnering, so the SOW should list out the types of users that can access your app!

Features to be included in your app!

A great Scope of Work (SOW) should always have the features you would like to see in your app! As features are one that gets your app in front of many users. 

To make that happen you should start with creating a list of pages that you would like your users to see when they open your app. Pages refer to the app flow. 

For Eg.- After signing in to the application, the users should start with his name. So it becomes a step by step guide to the developers!

The list of actions that you want your users to perform in your app should also be in included in the SOW. If you look forward to a digital payment app, then you should consist of all the services your app would provide- payment through QR Code, payment by phone no. electricity bill paying feature, recharge, etc!

The Scope of Work (SOW) can further be precise by bifurcating the features you want to include in the menu of the app and then get to perform it.

Activity Reports of the App

You are investing in your app idea and you will want to look out for the activity charts of your app. So, your SOW should mention all the activity reports of your app would like to acknowledge. 

Eg- Activity charge of a user spending time of the app, duration spent in logging in the app, total app users, etc.

If you haven’t thought of building an activity report, then you can think of one to integrate into your admin panel of the app. This will help you to see your app’s activity chart without taking the help of a third party processor.

Support & Maintenance Terms

You can put in the months of support you will need from the mobile app development company. And even you can add the number of fix hours/time your app will need for maintenance & support.

Revenue generation and Target Customers.

This is an important detail that will backup your Scope of Work (SOW). A considerable factor in estimating the mobile app development pricing, deciding the method revenue generation will help you to integrate the best way of payment into your app. And this will help your developers to process it in your B2B app. 

Lastly, the timeline to accomplish all your mobile app development project tasks.

A detailed timeline is what your SOW should contain. Not only, it will help you in achieving your desired results at a set period but it will break the project into time valued tasks. 

The mobile app development process directly depends on the hours spent, so if your SOW that is your agreement deals with the timeline then your app development cost can be calculated effectively. 

If you follow the pattern of the above Scope of Work, then you are bound to get the desired results. Documenting it rather than verbally explaining it, will increase more chances of your app idea getting the recognition it needs. 

We human beings are more of forgetful beings, and as we know writing/planning the events make us reach our goals faster than not planning. Our developers will get a clear idea after reading your SOW and in the end, this will be beneficial for you. 

Writing 3-4 pages of a precise SOW will do its job and will increase the chances of getting your vision into reality.

If you are looking forward to investing in a startup or have a great app idea then write a great SOW or contact us with your idea.