Week 4: Research
Feature Prioritisation and MVPs
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Additional Resources
Articles
- The 'Yes, And…' Approach: Less Ego, More Openness, More Possibility
- Feature Fatigue: When Product Capabilities Become Too Much of a Good Thing
- MoSCoW method (wiki)
- The Ultimate Guide to Minimum Viable Products
- 5 Awesome MVP Examples
- How DropBox Started As A Minimal Viable Product
- Building a Minimum Viable Product? You’re Probably Doing it Wrong
Key Terms & Concepts
- Feature Fatigue
The concept that too many features actually cause users to have a poorer experience with a product
- Scope Creep
When the intended scope for features for a site or app gradually increases before launch.
- “Yes, and” Protocol
An improvisational technique adopted by some design firms to facilitate open and positive brainstorming.
- Minimum Viable Product
A Lean Startup concept that is a mechanism for testing and eliminating assumptions about a product with minimum effort and expense.
- Smoke Test
A smoke test is a type of MVP where a site or feature is advertised before it is built. Interest in the feature or site is measured by how many users click on it and/or sign up.