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…together with string, sticky tape and enough product debt to sink the Titanic is never a good idea. Treat your MVP / Earliest Testable Product as a learning exercise and ditch the code once you’ve learnt enough to move forward.

This MVP madness must stop
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·Dec 26, 2020

Hm. Isn’t what you describe a prototype? The idea of a MVP is to be viable – obviously it is not, when you build it with the goal to ditch it later on. It isn’t either, when it’s Frankensteins product.

I don’t think that a change of wording will ever help people not to do wrong.

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