Many large-scale and enterprise-oriented mobile applications will
be part of a product family. These applications will often be
mobile web applications, rather than native mobile applications,
and will often complement or augment an existing application. As
a result, development of the mobile application will typically be
done within the context of the overall software development
effort, thus providing a management framework for the mobile
application. However, the unique qualities of the mobile
environment makes it important not to treat the mobile application
as an afterthought, but rather as an independent task with its own
software engineering process and product requirements.