Twin Cities Code Camp

The minimum? Why would I only want to do the minimum? It seems counter-intuitive - the idea that the best path forward when embarking on new product development should focus on the smallest possible product. Why not go big and try to launch with a big splash? Won't your customers be turned off by a lack of features and glorious complexity? As it turns out, taking the path of humility towards your market is a far more productive path. You can start with a small hypothesis - test that hypothesis against real customers. Using continuous delivery, you can rapidly iterating over your product, using data, rather than opinion, to guide your product development efforts. Such an approach not only costs less money, it allows you to vet the initiative before it becomes "too big to fail". In this session, we will cover what the MVP is, how you define one, and how you use validated learning to guide your efforts. Further, we will cover how agile software development and continuous delivery are essential to product development efforts that use this approach.