To branch rather than hijacking someone else's conversation or confusing my other thread, there is a context where a Minimum Viable Product makes logical sense: 1/n https://twitter.com/ncdominie/status/1250471865405116417

1. You think it's more useful to get feedback on a rough draft of your product than on a more polished version. "Feedback" can mean a lot of different things. Examples are, "Do people want to buy this at all?" or "Is X more important to them than Y?" 2/n

2. You can change your product fast in response to the feedback you get. 3/n

3. Your customers are willing and/or able to consume a lot of changes in a short amount of time. 4/n

MVP has left its original land of lean startup to mean other things, so I shouldn't be surprised it's been taken up by education. But it's worth asking "Is this what you mean by MVP, and do we believe these conditions hold?" 5/n

I'm starting to hear the mathematician voice in my head, so that is the end of this thread. (cc @ncdominie) /fin

I finish a thread about MVPs and along comes an idea that is the perfect example of a thing where someone should build the damn prototype and try to sell it to find out if anyone (besides @ksonney) wants one: https://twitter.com/hamiltonnolan/status/1250258752739192832