Re:Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software
by chefandy on Sunday June 18, 2023 @05:08PM
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It was actually the appropriate scope for an mvp, it was just an unreasonable time frame to make a solid codebase for anything other than a demo for the complexity of the project. That's fine for a genuine proof of concept/rapid prototype you're going to be disciplined enough to trash, but letting that slip into the role of your core codebase is like pouring a sloppy scaled-down concrete foundation as a test for a house, and then trying to just expand it into what you need.
The reality is that MVP should be missing most planned functionality and should really just be a few core features and functions that the rest of the application builds off of, the trunk of the dependency tree so to speak. That idea is, unfortunately lost on the majority of PM's, and ultimately it costs more time/money to get to a finished v1 because of it.