51: What is a Minimum Viable Product?
How useful is an MVP, and how do they differ from traditional prototypes?
A Question of Code · Ed & Tom Hazledine
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Show Notes
Creating an MPV (Minimum Viable Product) is a big deal in "startup land". But what are they, exactly? How do they differ from a normal proof-of-concept or technical prototype, and are they a useful part of the development cycle?
MVP is an oft-abused term, but why do people insist on skipping the "viable" part? What should you bear in mind when creating a genuinely useful MVP of your own? Find out all this and more in this week's fortuitous instalment of A Question of Code.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Future Sync conference
- Cargo Cult on Wikipedia
- Mechanical Turk on Wikipedia
- SWAPI (the Star Wars API)