# MVP

> Minimum Viable Product — the smallest version that tests the real hypothesis, not a cheap version of the whole thing.

An MVP is an experiment dressed as a product: the smallest thing that puts the core assumption in front of real users and returns a real answer. 'Will shop owners re-order through a link instead of a call' needs a link and a button — not the inventory sync, the dashboard, or the native app, which is where MVPs most often fail: they grow to include the imagined final product's scaffolding, cost like it, and still answer nothing.

The discipline is subtraction ordered by risk: keep the feature that tests the biggest unknown, cut what tests nothing, and define the answer the experiment returns before building. An MVP done right is intentionally embarrassing in scope — the embarrassment is the proof that only the hypothesis was paid for.

## Related terms

- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/discovery-call.md
- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/retainer.md
- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/seo.md

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