March 2023
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 9m
English
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43
Done is better than perfect.
Every single thing on a website or app that a user can interact with is considered a feature. Filtering, sorting, pagination, image carousels, booking tickets, or selecting seats are all features. One of the hardest things on any project is figuring out which features are must-haves and which are nice to have, but not crucial.
To get a product out as quickly as possible, it’s best to release products with the bare minimum amount of features required to see how people will interact with it. Otherwise we run the risk of taking forever to release a very large, bloated, and expensive product nobody wants or needs (see Principle 44).
The term “minimum viable product” (MVP) was first coined by Frank Robinson in 2001 ...