And the Oscar goes to… MVP<\/p>\n
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Oscar 2016: MVP finally wins academy award for best entrepreneur supporting actor.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
MVP, short for minimum viable product<\/em>, has been the favorite for many StartUps, entrepreneurs, and new business.\u00a0 And it finally got the deserved award!<\/p>\n
MVP played small parts at the Toyota\u00b4s lean manufacture style [1] [2]. But it was never nominated for the Oscar on the last century.<\/p>\n
MVP first appearance at the academy was in 2000, when the expression *minimum viable product* came up in a Willian Junk\u2019s [3] article, \u201cThe Dynamic Balance Between Cost, Schedule, Features, and Quality in Software Development Projects, Computer Science\u201d.<\/p>\n
Later, in 2006, it was nominated again, when Steve Blank, an entrepreneur from Silicon Valley, created a methodology [4] based on client development. That was the beginning of the Lean Startup movement.<\/p>\n
In 2011, MVP got another nomination with Eric Ries and his book [5] named after the Lean Startup movement.<\/p>\n
And now, in 2016, MVP finally gets the best entrepreneur supporting actor Oscar. The \u201cfilm\u201d [6] was directed by Paulo Caroli, from Brazil, in a book in Portuguese: Direto ao ponto, criando produtos de forma enxuta.<\/p>\n
Rumors say Paulo is already working on the translation to English and Spanish. And small MVP appearances (blog posts and articles) can be seen on his website: caroli.org<\/a><\/p>\n
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References:<\/p>\n
[1]: Womack, James P.; Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos. (1990) The Machine That Changed the World.<\/p>\n
[2]: Ohno, Taiichi. (1988) Toyota Production System. Productivity Press<\/p>\n
[3]: Willian, S. Junk. (2000) The Dynamic Balance Between Cost, Schedule, Features, and Quality in Software Development Projects, Computer Science Dept., University of Idaho, SEPM-001.<\/p>\n
[4]: Blank, Steve G. (2006) The four steps to the epiphany: successful strategies for products that win.<\/p>\n
[5]: Ries, Eric. (2011) The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Crown Publishing.<\/p>\n