Imagine a product team discussing new commenting functionality on their company blog. “We should let people comment anonymously.” “That will only attract trolls. We should require real names.” “We should require unique names, but allow pseudonyms.” You won’t find a shortage of debate on this topic across the Internet. But there is no right answer. […]
The Dangers of Thinking of Products as Features
It’s easy to spend the majority of your time talking about features. You track features in your backlog. You schedule features on your roadmap. Your customers request features. Your sales team complaints about missing features. Almost everyone thinks of products as features. But if you want to build better products, you need to stop thinking […]
Practice Defining Your MVP
Suppose you are building eVite. Or Facebook Events. Or whatever your favorite event site is. And you need to define your MVP. How would you think about it? Some of you might already be jumping right in. You are thinking you’ll need: a basic event listing the ability to rsvp the ability to view who […]
How You Build Matters. Finding Your MVP.
The MVP. The minimum viable product. The most misunderstood concept in the world of Lean startups. And one of the most critical to get right. Why Time To Build Doesn’t Matter In this post about prioritizing, I argue that time to build shouldn’t be taken into consideration when deciding what to build next. You should […]
