Alternative to the MVP: Simple, Lovable and Complete
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Alternative to the MVP: Simple, Lovable and Complete
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Re: Alternative to the MVP: Simple, Lovable and Complete
#2Oddly enough, this has always been my understanding of the word MVP - simple but complete. I'd be surprised if there good engineers who make the mistake mentioned in the article.
Re: Alternative to the MVP: Simple, Lovable and Complete
#3This just seems like nothing but fluff:
Simple = Minimum
Complete = Product
Lovable = Viable
People (including me!) just suck at knowing what an MVP is, and tend to release 2-3 connected MVPs at once.
Re: Alternative to the MVP: Simple, Lovable and Complete
#4Admittedly I've never worked at a startup. I've always taken MVPs as a releasable proof of concept. Reminiscent of the "tracer bullets" discussed int The Pragmatic Programmer.
If you're trying to prove a market, yeah, an MVP would look like the skateboard -> car image. If you're trying to prove a technology, it would look like an internal combustion engine strapped to some tires. If it was a passenger vehicle, it would look like a carriage with some engineers pulling it with ropes like horses. The "Not like this" looks like a poor implementation of "waterfall."
Re: Alternative to the MVP: Simple, Lovable and Complete
#5Oddly enough, this has always been my understanding of the word MVP - simple but complete. I'd be surprised if there good engineers who make the mistake mentioned in the article.
Yeah, for me "viable" has always meant complete, worth selling as a product.
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#6I like the lovable (or as someone said in the comments, compelling) part.
Thinking of customer development, would it still be risky to build an SLC and then validate your hypothesis? Presumably, since you've focused on both lovability and complete-ness, it won't just be a figment of your imagination?
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#7> But no customer wants to use an unfinished product that the creators are embarrassed by. Customers want great products they can use now.
The reason MVPs are so valuable is the word "viable". If your customers truly demand "great products they can use now", then that's what viable means for that customer group.
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#8"MVPs are too M and almost never V"
yes, viable is the hard part. just like "loveable" will be the hard part of SLC.
next month's article. "SLCs make me SC(sick)"
Re: Alternative to the MVP: Simple, Lovable and Complete
#9Admittedly I've never worked at a startup. I've always taken MVPs as a releasable proof of concept. Reminiscent of the "tracer bullets" discussed int The Pragmatic Programmer. If you're trying to prove a market, yeah, an MVP would look like the skateboard -> car image. If you're trying to prove a technology, it would look like an internal combustion engine strapped to some tires. If it was a passenger vehicle, it wou…
Big corps have departments doing MVPs these days, no need to be a startup.
Re: Alternative to the MVP: Simple, Lovable and Complete
#10Admittedly I've never worked at a startup. I've always taken MVPs as a releasable proof of concept. Reminiscent of the "tracer bullets" discussed int The Pragmatic Programmer. If you're trying to prove a market, yeah, an MVP would look like the skateboard -> car image. If you're trying to prove a technology, it would look like an internal combustion engine strapped to some tires. If it was a passenger vehicle, it wou…
Big corps have departments doing MVPs these days, no need to be a startup.
Unfortunately, some (big co) use it as a buzz word and rarely go back to iterate on the MVP.
Just make it as inexpensive as possible, it feels like a cheap version of watergile.