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Minimum Viable Product
The smallest real version of a product that can test the assumption a decision depends on.
What is Minimum Viable Product?
The smallest real version of a product that can test the assumption a decision depends on.
What you learn
Build only what must be real for the test to teach you.
When it helps
a team keeps adding scope before testing whether the core idea works.
Use it at work
- Write the assumption you need to test.
- Write the result that would change your decision.
- Build only what must be real for that result to mean something.
- Put it in front of real people, and measure.
Your output
Write the one question your MVP answers. Cut every feature that doesn’t affect the answer.
Watch for
Adding scope before testing the key assumption.
Related practices
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