What does MVP/“is MVP”/“is not MVP” mean?
Sometimes you see either the term “MVP” or the phrases “That is MVP”/“That is not MVP”. What does it mean?
MVP
MVP stands for “Minimum Viable Product” and describes the minimum required set of features the first version of our software should have. It can be seen as the goal for a version “1.0”.
“That is MVP”/“That is not MVP”
When looking at/discussing feature ideas, it is important to know, whether something is just a general note of “we should have this, sometimes” or whether something should be part of our MVP. Subsequently the tags #mvp and #non-mvp are used to categorize these posts.
When it is said, that a feature “is not MVP”, it doesn’t mean, that this feature must not be implemented before the MVP launch. However it means, that the development of this feature should not be blocking MVP launch. If it is not complete, it doesn’t matter.
On the other hand, “is MVP”-features are required to be completed, before we are able to launch our MVP-version.