Viewing entries tagged with 'minimum viable product'

Product Scorecard Stages

Posted by marty cagan on May 18, 2012

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Normally I like to keep my newsletters to discussions of organization, process and best practices that I believe apply to nearly all technology companies, and I limit the number of product-specific techniques I discuss because of that.  I save the product-specific techniques for my direct work with companies so that I can be sure it's relevant. 

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Live-Data Prototypes vs. Production

Posted by marty cagan on April 3, 2012

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I have written earlier about the differences between user prototypes (simulations intended to test the user experience), and live-data prototypes (actual code intended to send live traffic to in order to test real behavior).  See http://www.svpg.com/product-discovery-with-live-data-prototypes/

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MVP vs. Minimal Product

Posted by marty cagan on March 7, 2012

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To continue on the series of articles describing the critically important concept of Minimum Viable Product (MVP), in this article I wanted to contrast this concept with what I call "Minimal Product."

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MVP vs. Product Vision

Posted by marty cagan on October 31, 2011

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Earlier I expanded on the notion of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and I promised a series of articles that explores aspects of MVP that often cause product teams confusion.  In this article, I’d like to discuss the relationship between the MVP and the Product Vision.

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Minimum Viable Product

Posted by marty cagan on August 24, 2011

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One of the most important concepts in all of software is the notion of minimum viable product (often referred to as “MVP”).  But if you’ve been around software products for a while, you know that term is used in many different ways, and while the term intuitively resonates with people, there’s often a lot of confusion about what this really means in practice.

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