It’s not always easy for internal change agents as the environment does not allow transparency and focus is on delivering, instead of learning. It’s a strange world, but I have hope and by sharing your experiences through this post, you can add one more person on the list where you helped made a difference.

Cheers to making the world a better place!
Sameer

Thank you for the feedback. My take on MVP is that people get too hung up on the P. You also have conflicting definitions of it out there in the wild (Cagan vs Ries). I heard a wise man say once that whoever sells the most books, gets to define it .

My personal view on MVP is more of MVE (Minimum Viable Experiment). Your MVP is designed to learn more than anything. People get in trouble when they try to scale horribly buggy, not well designed code that was hacked together for a test to learn.

For a “lovable product”, I think you are keying in on what Patrick & Brant speak to with Passionate Users in the Lean Entrepreneur. I’ve also been going down that path in my consulting work. I want people to understand who their passionate users are, how they became passionate, etc so that they can leverage them for their engine of growth. If you have no passionate users as of yet, then reverse engineer your way back to see if you can optimize the funnel through experiments to create them.

Good stuff though, keep writing

@davidjbland

http://blog.aha.io/index.php/the-minimum-lovable-product/

Let me know what you think.

@davidjbland

Very interesting post. Timothy Ferris discusses this topic a bit in recent cook book. I found that I’ve been using a couple of your ideas without the formal thought behind it. I just kind of read what was relevant, and then skipped that which was boring. Again, great post. Very thought provoking.

I tend to mindmap the topics. It helps me with the question that was posed by Berbie about how to connect everything.