TermCraft conventionFoundational
Minimum Viable Product
The smallest thing you can build to find out whether the idea works.
Definition
The smallest version of a product that allows a team to learn something valid about demand or usability.
Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.
In plain language
The smallest thing you can build to find out whether the idea works.
Example
One workflow, end to end, for one segment, released to learn rather than to scale.
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Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.
Nearby in the Atlas
Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.