A workshop to kickstart your project.

At Add Jam, we believe that every great product starts life as a fragile idea that needs teased out, developed and given a roadmap to reality. That's why we've introduced our exclusive App Planning Day – a dedicated one day workshop designed to transform your vision into a viable blueprint for success.

At this stage, we forget the rules - anything is possible. By doing this, you can come up with something truly innovative. That's why we focus on figuring out and pinpointing exactly what the goals of your product are and what your users are expecting to get from the product.

What is in an App Planning Day?

App Planning Day is a 4 to 5-hour deep dive session where we bring your app idea into the spotlight. It's a day dedicated to unraveling the potential of your product, exploring implementation strategies, routes to market, and funding sources. This workshop is the starting point of every project we embark on, ensuring we lay a strong foundation for your app's development and success.

What are the rules of the planning day?

To ensure the day is as productive as possible, we've set a few guidelines for attendance:

• Stakeholders and Decision Makers: We recommend that attendees should be key stakeholders or decision-makers within your organization. This helps in making pivotal decisions swiftly, keeping the planning process agile and effective.
• Limit of 4 Participants: This ensures that every voice is heard and contributes significantly to the planning process.
• No Preparation Needed: There's no homework required for App Planning Day. We want fresh ideas and open minds. However, we can provide some material beforehand for those eager to jumpstart their thought process.

Location and Format

While we strongly advocate for an off-site and in-person session to foster creativity and collaboration. We would typically hold these sessions in a city centre location in Glasgow however we understand the constraints of travel and other commitments. We therefore offer the flexibility to conduct App Planning sessions remotely to be as inclusive and available to as many stakeholders as possible.

What are the outputs?

Each App Planning Day is unique so outputs will vary. What we can guarantee is we will deliver tangible outcomes that serve as a foundation for your app's development journey. Come the end of the session, you'll potentially walk away with:

• A Draft Specification: A cornerstone document that outlines the scope and requirements of your project, ready to guide the estimation and planning of subsequent stages.
• High-Level Sprint Plan If your project moves to development, we'll outline a preliminary sprint plan to kickstart the agile development process.
• User Stories & Schema Design: Essential for understanding user interactions and database structure, fostering a user-centric development approach.
• UML Diagrams & Wireframes: Visual blueprints of your app's architecture and user interface, providing clarity and direction for designers and developers alike.

A roadmap to an MVP

An MVP is a 'Minimum Viable Product' - a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers and provide feedback for future product development. The App Planning Day is the first step in creating a roadmap to your MVP. We'll help you identify the features that are essential for your product to be viable and successful. We'll also help you identify the features that can be added later, after your product has launched.

We do this to help you achieve traction for the mobile or web app with the least amount of effort, risk and most importantly cost. This is a key part of the Lean Startup methodology, which is all about building a product quickly, testing it with real users, and iterating based on their feedback. By focusing on the essential features first, you can get your product to market faster and start learning from your users sooner.

Why Choose Us?

The Add Jam App Planning Day is the first step towards turning an exciting app or website idea into reality. Our web and mobile development team in Glasgow have years of experience in creating products that scale. We apply this expertise at the App Planning Day, you will be guided by our years of experience in creating world class software projects and a commitment to excellent engineering to make sure your concept takes a positive step forward.

Ready to start your journey with us? Let's plan the future of your app together. Contact the Add Jam team or book a call to schedule your App Planning Day.