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> A good synonym for "MVP" should be "experiment" You are focusing solely on the M and forgetting VP. If something isn’t a Viable Product then it isn’t a Minim
by boublepop 7y ago
> A good synonym for "MVP" should be "experiment"
You are focusing solely on the M and forgetting VP.
If something isn’t a Viable Product then it isn’t a Minimal Viable Product.
You could create an MVP as an “experiment”, but it can’t be synonyms because not every experiment is even a product or a viable product and thus not at all a MVP.
- ealexhudson 7y agoBut the "viable product" bit is the hypothesis you're testing. If you're saying "before you release it, it has to be believable as a product" - I think I basically agree with that, and for sure, that's a subset of the total things that might be "experiments" (because you can experiment with individual features, and stuff like that). I suppose there are two ways of reading the word "viable", either "does this look sufficiently like a product?" or "is a product with this basic concept likely to thrive in the marketplace?". I think too many people focus on the former and not the latter.