Because the concept of minimum viable product is key to developing successful products, here’s a post by Marty Cagan on MVP.
Marty covers one of Henrik Kniberg’s posts on MVP. Instead of using software engineers to build software in a two-week sprint and then get customer feedback, you can move faster by building rapid prototypes in a couple hours and then requesting customer feedback.
If all of those iterations are done using engineers and each requires releases to production, we’re probably at several months if not years of elapsed time, assuming management or the team hasn’t lost patience. However, if we can do those same 10-15 iterations in a week of discovery, we’ve reduced our time to deliver the right solution (defined as both building the right product and building the product right) to our customers from months to days
My suggestion is that developers become more T-shaped and learn design thinking skills; the ability to build rapid prototypes using drawings or storyboards is one of those skills.
Design thinking lets a team validate a product idea in weeks instead of months or years.
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