"Viable" is a characteristic of your product such that it looks and "feels" close to the real deal (but isn't!) in the hands of the customer. (Think viable as "

"Viable" is a characteristic of your product such that it looks and "feels" close to the real deal (but isn't!) in the hands of the customer. (Think viable as "fakable") "Minimum" is the least amount of resource it will take you to show off that characteristic. (I'm agreeing with you, btw. :-) )