I have an idea for a mobile app that would improve workflow in a specific industry. The structure would be trivially simple - basically an electronic adaptation of the Kanban system, a la Trello, only specific to this industry.
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A very, very WAG: 6 to 12 person-months to get an implemention of some basic flows on a single mobile OS. You would want a mobile dev, backend dev, and UX designer.
Longer for both mobile OSes. Ideally you’d have a web interface too. You could potentially use a framework to get all three at once, but I don’t know much about them.
I read a lot of words on that site and have an idea what the point of the method is, but didn’t get to an understanding of what the interactions are. You’d have to list out the core user interactions to build better estimates.
Depending on how real you want your implementation to be, you would need to include things like user-management, permissions, projects. It gets complicated quickly.
Obviously you could build a non-functional demo mock-up much faster. There should be design tools that let you do this.
Kanban bears a decent similarity to Agile development as current practiced by the people who do it right. With that in mind you might explore what software tools exist already to support agile development management. They are legion.
With two goals. One is to learn if there are already 100 competitors for your proposed product.
And two, to see if one of them might be be designed to be “re-skinned” as we say to look like it’s totally for your vertical industry. Let them do all the heavy lifting of functional complex software and your team can focus on the much smaller job of taking a general planning tool and putting up guard rails to keep the use cases within your target industry.