There is no good reason why an MVP should take more than one month. If that happens, it means that the scope of the minimum viable product wasn’t small enough.
You want to build the smallest feature set in order to start learning from your target market. It doesn’t have to be feature complete. It doesn’t even have to offer a feature. It doesn’t even need to be a web-based MVP.
Read more »At OmbuLabs we like to split our time working on our own products, client projects, and open source code. We have embraced the Lean Startup methodology not only for our own products but also for our client projects.
It is easier to apply the methodology to our own products than to our client projects. With our products, we decide what goals we want to reach and what experiments we are going to run to validate our hypotheses.
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