Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

A minimum viable product is a usable test of a specific customer hypothesis. Minimum does not mean careless: the product must still meet the safety, reliability and data handling needs of the test.

Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

A minimum viable product is a usable test of a specific customer hypothesis. Minimum does not mean careless: the product must still meet the safety, reliability and data handling needs of the test.

Choose the smallest workflow that lets a customer experience the promised outcome. Identify what the team needs to learn and which features would not help answer that question. Manual support can be appropriate when its limits are explicit.

Measure use and customer outcomes, then decide what to change. A feature list is not evidence of learning. If the test fails, distinguish a poor implementation from a problem that customers do not value enough to solve.

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