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MVP

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˌem viː ˈpiː/abbreviationCore term

In software engineering, MVP means: Short for minimum viable product: the simplest version of a product that can be released to real users to learn whether the idea is worth building further.

In Turkish: minimum uygulanabilir ürün, minimum işlevsel ürün

How it is used

Said letter by letter: M-V-P. The point of an MVP is learning, not just a cheap first release. Teams build, launch and test an MVP, and often argue about how minimal it can be while still being viable.

Example sentences

  1. For the MVP, we'll skip online payments and send invoices by hand.

  2. The MVP showed us that people wanted the reminders, not the social features.

Common collocations

  • build an MVP
  • launch an MVP
  • test the MVP
  • MVP scope
  • hypothesisA specific, testable statement about what you expect to happen and why, written down before an experiment or analysis starts.
  • validateTo check with evidence, such as user tests, data or experiments, that an idea, assumption or solution is actually right before investing more in it.
  • prototypeA quick, rough version of a game or feature made to test whether an idea is fun or works, before the team spends time on final art and polish.
  • iterateTo go through the items of a collection one by one, or more generally to repeat a process and improve the result each time.

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