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The MVP Canvas
The MVP Canvas is a tool for validating product ideas. It’s a visual board (available here for download) that helps entrepreneurs align and define the strategy for the MVP – Minimum Viable Product, which is the simplest version of a product that can be released to the business (minimum product) and that can be effectively used and validated by the end user (viable product).
The onion method by Lourenço Soares
Lourenço uses a very interesting method to write the stories of a feature. He named it the onion method. Basically he writes at the top of the canvas the name of the feature, theme, or epic. Then he puts in the center the most basic story; that simpliest that can be...
Postmortem retrospective agenda
Please find below a postmortem retrospective agenda I used for a 1 and ½ hour meeting for a group of 10 participants. I have followed the 7 steps as described in this post, and used the activities from the FunRetrospectives.com site. Set the context: "This is the end...
Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA)
MVP allows you to have a product in the hands of users quickly, at a low cost. However, this speed must be balanced with sustainability, which is where Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA) comes in. The sooner the product is used, the sooner you learn from real users to improve it. The best way to learn and evolve your product is based on usage. This is much better than looking at a blank sheet of paper trying to visualize how a system should work.
Failure, compartmentalization and learning
When designing MVPs you must optimize for learning, instead of purely delivery. With this in mind, the word failure has another meaning. An experiment will result into something. When thinking about a hypothesis or a feature, you might be thinking about it in a...







