PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

7 Easy Steps to Design and Build an MVP

The primary benefit of an MVP is understanding about your customers’ interest.

Valentin Podkamennyi
Datamart
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3 min readApr 1, 2020

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7 easy steps to design and build an MVP

In today’s world many companies realize the sooner the market sees your product, the more benefits you can gain.

This is what an MVP resolves.

A minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers, and to provide feedback for future product development.

The primary benefit of an MVP is you can gain understanding about your customers’ interest in your product without fully developing the product.

Consider you followed directions “How to prepare for new product development.” Now you are ready to build an MVP.

We will follow the Agile iterative model. Remember, Agile does not have important or unimportant iterations. Try to distribute all the work evenly, in order to maximize the resources and velocity of your team.

  1. User stories. Describe features as user stories.
  2. Screens and user flow. Define each screen of your product. MVP does not require to contain many screens, choose most important. Take the wireframe as a basis.
  3. Prepare a design. While the…

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Valentin Podkamennyi
Datamart

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned software engineer, specializing in software development, architecture design, and generative AI. vpodk.com