Planning a Minimum Viable Product: a Step-By-Step Guide
Lean Startup author Eric Ries gives a commonly accepted minimum viable product (MVP) definition, describing “a version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learnings about customers with the least effort.” In mobile app development, your MVP includes the feature or features necessary to solve a core problem for a set of users and thrive in the market.
A central tenet of lean methodology, MVP development follows a build-measure-learn process; the goal is to provide an immediate benefit while minimizing development costs and using data to add user value over time. The lean startup MVP method helps you to release a product that can be continually improved as you validate (or invalidate) assumptions, learn what users actually want, and build future iterations of your app that better serve your customers.
This step-by-step guide will provide all the steps you need to plan your minimum viable product and start development.
