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MVP and startups
Posts on taking a product from idea to a first version and beyond. 10 posts, newest first.
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Fixed Price vs Time and Materials: How to Decide
Fixed price or time and materials? Who carries the risk in each, how change requests work, the hybrid options, a worked example and a checklist.
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Is Low-Code Right for Your Business? How to Decide
Is low-code right for your business? The benefits, the limits such as lock-in and scale, and how to decide between low-code and a custom build.
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Agile Development for a Minimum Viable Product: A Guide
Agile development explained for teams building a minimum viable product: the values, sprints, Kanban, retrospectives and the tools to run them.
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Learning From Failure in Product Innovation
Learning from failure in product innovation: make failures small, set kill criteria, run blameless post-mortems and feed lessons into the roadmap.
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Emerging Technology in Product Development: What to Use
Emerging technology in product development: AI and ML, IoT, AR and VR, low-code and 3D printing, and how to choose what to use in your product.
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Product Management Myths Debunked: Best Practices
Five product management myths debunked, from PMs as mini-CEOs to letting data decide everything, with the best practices that replace them.
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Data-Driven Product Roadmap: How to Build One
How to build a data-driven product roadmap: which data to use, how to score features, a now-next-later template, reviews and when to ignore the data.
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From Idea to Launch: The Product Development Process
The product development process in five stages, from idea validation and concept to prototype, pre-launch and launch, with the tools for each stage.
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MVP or Minimum Lovable Product: How to Choose
MVP or minimum lovable product? What each one is, when each fits your product and market, and how to combine them for early traction.
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What Is an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) and Why Build One?
What an MVP (minimum viable product) is, the rules behind one, how to build and iterate it, and its benefits and limits before you scale.
