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The Minimum Viable Product, explained.
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What an MVP really is and how you can benefit from it.The term MVP was coined and defined by Frank Robinson and popularized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries. A popular definition is the following:“… the minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers, and to provide feedback for future development…”If you analyse this definition, you will see three major components there:1. An MVP provides ‘Just enough features’Assuming you have a product backlog — a list of all the features you want to build in your product — you have to decide the order to build them and when to release your product. The idea is to prioritize the features and release a smaller instance of my product, faster. But what would be the criteria for the prioritization? And how many of the top (...)

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Beyond the continuous delivery
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A ferries wheel, Scheveningen, The NetherlandsRecently I was sharing my vision of modern software engineering with new colleagues, what triggered me to look at the last couple of years of my software engineering experience. I went through past projects and teams and got a list of practices that I found interesting to observe. So, here is the list:Continuous usability;Continuous architecture;Continuous testing;Continuous improvement;The experiment based development from The Lean Startup of Eric Ries.Some names are just working titles and deserve some explanation, and I promise to follow up with future posts to explain them. You probably noticed that most of them have a word continuous. Why is that? Here I have to make a short step aside.I’ve started as a software engineer in 90th. Software (...)

#continuous-delivery #agile #software-development

#mvp is not enough. Your product must be AWESOME !
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Building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a task not to be taken lightly. The startup or enterprise business must clearly understand the goal of doing it, the possible limitations and the need to build something AWESOME.Let’s be frank: MVP, as we know it today, has drifted quite a long way aside from the concept initially proposed by Eric Ries in his The Lean Startup book around 7 years ago. The idea was to build a product with an absolute minimum of features, as a Proof of Concept, to ensure the main product idea is feasible and there is a market for it.Since then quite a lot of project managers fell for the fallacy of “minimum viability” of the product. Unfortunately, in waaay many cases this meant the sub-par quality of the design and limited functionality, as everything was (...)

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How to build your #mvp without a technical co-founder and without code
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How many times have you had an idea for a startup, but stopped yourself from actually doing it because you had no technical co-founder and didn’t have the skills to build it yourself? I know, a lot of us have been there.The great news is you no longer need to have technical skills, or a technical co-founder to build your product. In this article, I will walk you through the process of building an MVP without writing a single line of code.What’s an MVP?Let’s put first things first — “MVP” is short for “Minimum Viable Product”. The concept of building and quickly testing the first version of your product is at the heart of the Lean Startup movement, started by Steve Blank and Eric Ries.Lean Startup revolutionized the manner and speed at which entrepreneurs launch their startups (no longer does one (...)

#lean-startup #bootstrapping #bootstrapped-startup #mvp-without-code

Aligning #sales, #marketing, and #support for #revenue Growth
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Business owners rely on a lot of metrics to evaluate whether their business is growing or taking a toll down the hill. Monthly active users, month-by-month growth rate, user retention rate and what not?But at the end of the day, what matters is how your overall revenue is fairing against the cost of acquiring customers.Eric Ries, the pioneer of Lean Startup movement, coined a term for all these secondary metrics — Vanity metrics. If you are not filling in your pockets by the end of the day; the number of active users, number of leads and other Vanity metrics can serve as a false pretense of growth.(If you have not read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, I would highly recommend you do so, especially if you are running a startup or managing a team)I am not saying that these metrics should not be (...)

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