Thursday, May 23, 2019 By James Turnbull
You have a fantastic idea. You've taken the core concepts of that idea and turned them into a prototype, a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). The prototype is the first pass of your solution. It's not pretty, nor complete, and often not tested. Frank Robinson said when he coined the MVP term: "... think big for the long term but small for the short term. Think big enough that the first product is a sound launching pad for it and its next generation and the road map that follows, but not so small that you leave room for a competitor to get the jump on you." Once you have your prototype though, the question becomes how you get that "sound launching pad" in front of potential investors and customers and enable you to grow it into a fully-fledged product.
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Thursday, April 11, 2019 By James Turnbull
Deployment gets the code you and your team have written out into the world. Any system you've written that isn't deployed, and in front of a user, isn't generating value. It's also not giving you feedback about your product and how it helps your users. Hence getting deployment going is one of the first things most engineering teams (even if that's just you on day 1!) do when they start to build a product.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 By James Turnbull
You have an amazing idea. You’ve taken the core concepts of your idea and turned them into a prototype, a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). The prototype is the first pass. It’s not pretty, nor complete, and often not tested. Frank Robinson said when he coined the MVP term: "... think big for the long term but small for the short term. Think big enough that the first product is a sound launching pad for it and its next generation and the road map that follows, but not so small that you leave room for a competitor to get the jump on you." Once you have your prototype and you know that it’s viable, how do you turn it into a fully-fledged product and how do you get there? Enter the product road map.