Mobile App Development Procurement Plan
This is a practical guide to building a procurement plan for a mobile app development project — what will be bought, how and from whom, adapted to the realities of building a native or cross-platform mobile app.
What a Procurement Plan is
A procurement plan is what will be bought, how and from whom. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Procurement Management. On a mobile app development project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Mobile App Development project
Mobile App Development projects live or die on building a native or cross-platform mobile app. A well-built procurement plan gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how mobile app development projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- What to procure
- Contract types
- Selection criteria
- Timeline and SLAs
Mobile App Development-specific considerations
Tailor the procurement plan to the risks that most often derail mobile app development projects:
- App-store approval delays
- Device fragmentation
- Evolving feature scope
Example
On a real mobile app development project, the procurement plan would be shaped by building a native or cross-platform mobile app. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — app-store approval delays, device fragmentation, evolving feature scope — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.