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Admittedly 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 Prag
by pfranz 9y ago
Admittedly 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."
- tluyben2 9y agoBig corps have departments doing MVPs these days, no need to be a startup.
- daleco 9y agoUnfortunately, 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.
- delecti 9y agoAgreed entirely. If the customer isn't happy then either you set your bar for "minimum" too low, or you've proven that your product isn't viable. It's not that customers don't like MVPs, it's that customers don't like shitty unfinished things.