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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.

Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.

Deeper reading

The full entry behind this definition.

Related concept

Connected closely enough to change how you apply this.

Nearby in the Atlas

Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.