Steve Neiderhauser

Minimum Viable Product

I've worked with some product people who find it challenging to think in terms of a minimum viable product. The minimum that provides value to a customer and lets you collect valuable feedback.

 

Brad Montgomery explains that we may want to replace "Minimum Viable Product" with the concept of a "Minimum Working Thing." Brad's advice in a nutshell:

 

"Build something really small that works, and let your customers start using it. Pay close attention to what they do and how they use your minimum working thing. They'll guide you the rest of the way."

Emphatic Word Order

Roy Peter Clark Clark provides eight strategies that can strengthen your writing. One tool is emphatic word order. Placing a word at the end of a sentence will emphasis the word more than hiding the word in the middle of a winding sentence.

Here's an eloquent description of the tool.

“There is sometimes an extraordinary force in some particular word, which, if it be placed in no very conspicuous position in the middle part of a sentence, is likely to escape the attention of the hearer and to be obscured by the words surrounding it; but if it be put at the end of the sentence is urged upon the reader’s sense and imprinted on his mind.”