Product

Minimum Viable Product

Acronym : MVP

An MVP is the simplest version of a product that lets a team test a hypothesis with real users at minimal cost, before deciding whether to invest further.

Why it matters

It avoids spending months building a full feature based on assumptions that were never validated with real users.

Concrete example

Before building a full module, a team tests a manually operated MVP with ten customers to validate demand.

Related notions

Hypothesis validationLean startupProduct iteration

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