Minimum Viable Product
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Top product management reads in April
A roundup and summary of the top five most-read articles appearing on the Mind the Product blog during April 2023. Read more »
How to build an MVP that matters
A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a powerful tool, but is often misinterpreted as the lowest quality thing you can build. Robert Schlaff explains how he’s built MVPs that matter. Read more »
A minimum viable product is not always a startup’s most valuable player
A common startup practice is to first create a minimum viable product (MVP). We did not build an MVP but waited until the product felt full-featured and mature before engaging with potential customers. In this post, we’ll explain why this approach worked. Read more »
Rapid Prototyping – Philip Pantelides on The Product Experience [Rebroadcast]
In 2020, we had to brush up on our skills. Building quickly and testing with users is key to many product people, but this year demanded a new approach when we couldn’t do our work in person. With that in mind, we’re revisiting our chat with Cookpad’s Head of Product for Premium Services, Philip Pantelides, Read more »
Iterating Your Voice Product, by Lisa Vigar
In this MTP Engage Manchester talk, Lisa Vigar takes us through the journey – from launch proposition in September 2018, to winning a prestigious Webby award – of the BBC Voice for Kids Alexa app. She outlines some of the lessons learned around the challenges of developing voice products and working with children, and highlights the Read more »
What Does a Successful MVP Look Like?
MVP is a phrase that startup people love to throw around. It’s an acronym that can be used as a weapon. Everyone believes their vision is really the Minimum Viable Product. You can use the phrase to batter your colleagues’ ideas. You can simply declare “it’s not really minimum” if you want to do something less Read more »
Maximum Possible Products by Sally Foote
In this #mtpcon London talk, Sally Foote of Photobox had us consider that most product managers don’t work on greenfield products that allow them to design minimum viable services. The majority work with services and technologies that they didn’t design and which on the surface don’t meet their own or their user needs. She says Read more »
Ask Alexis and the SMS MVP by Josh Seiden
Josh Seiden is co-founder and principal at consulting firm Neo. In this ProductTank NYC talk, he shares his work on a project called Ask Alexis. Why MVP? Josh refers to a quote by Eric Ries: “The unit of progress for lean startups is validated learning.” The minimum viable product (MVP) is the smallest thing you Read more »
Insights from Building Cross-Functional Teams
Worlds collide in this detailed discussion between product management, UX, and Engineering heads at Schibsted Media, showing us how their teams coordinate and prioritise development. Jaqueline Dozier (PM), Atelach Alemu Argaw (Dev), and Axel Haugan (UX) guide us through these familiar but troubled waters. Scope Ideas into Manageable Pieces We’ve seen products move from a Read more »
Build better products with effective MVPs
The concept of an MVP – or Minimum Viable Product – is a one that comes up a lot in product development. MVPs are an intrinsic part of the build-measure-learn process at the heart of product management processes, offering maximum benefit for minimum effort. Correct implementation of MVPs allows product managers to learn more about customers, deliver Read more »