MVP, a Key Concept to Make a Great Move!

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Posted by: Albert Weng

Welcome to the Year of Snake Year (as 2013 in Chinese tradition).

I'd like to take the chance to introduce the Minimum Viable Product, the MVP a key concept that will help you a lot with similarity of snake!!!

What do you see Snake when you think of it? No matter whether your answer is positive or negative, keep it with you, because I'm not going to change any bit of it, that's yours. However, I'm willing to share mine with you and, you'll find it helpful and useful, guaranteed.

Snake, as I presumed, is:
1. Smart, take the necessary move when a clear path/ direction is identified.
2. Stay low profile, seems to be always waiting for something important calmly.
3. Sleek, yes, considering her skin (interface) and the way she moves.

Okay, now you probably get the points/ tricks that I made. Everything, it's really everything which you presume to "see (the picture/ interpretation/ imagination/ assumption of the thing)", will then, become as what it is. This is so-called "seeing is believing", then up a level to "seeing is becoming". So, what does my presumption of Snake to do with us? I'm about to introduce one of the most critical concepts of our everyday work and performance. The MVP way.

Intro of MVP

MVP, stands for Minimum Viable Product, which was created and developed by Eric Ries and now is very wide-spreading in startup circle globally on product development, and even also business development in general. Simply put, an MVP is a product that consists the very basic but fundamental 1) feature sets (to solve a customer problem) and; 2) look & feel (simply means the user experience on how this product will be used to solve those customer problems), so it'll be able to make a precise experiment for structured tweaking toward the final output/ product, throughout iteration of the refinement cycle.

Snake and MVP

1) Smart, yes, definitely, each MVP shall be smart to start from those that matters only. Then it will open for wide feedback to make sound judgement to next version of improvement.

2. Stay low profile, yes again, the MVP is not making home-run, instead, it's a humble start to get those key stakeholders/ collaborators/ customers involved seamlessly and silently (e.g., placement marketing).

3. Sleek, definitely, MVP doesn't mean to be looked cheap, rough or even ugly. Bear in mind, user experience (UX) starts from first impression down to the look & feel of its operation throughout the use of the products. Sleek is one of the top criteria to keep up with.

Reference:
Venture Hacks interview: "What is the minimum viable product?"