How to Prioritize the Feature Development After You’ve Built an MVP
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First things first, as many say. In the context of startup product development, MVP is the first target version of your dream-like product. But MVPs are known for being less time and cost-consuming. There project development is about to reach its final stage — and what is the next step after mvp?
Haven’t you noticed that building an MVP has a snowball effect?
Imagine the snowball creation process. You start small, snowflake by snowflake gathering them all into the ball. The same analogy works with MVP creation — you start small, defining features that are a must-have in your product. During the development process your team and you come up with fresh ideas on how to improve the product, resulting in that new tasks appear. Of course, this causes the budget limits to grow as well.
However, you have already agreed you’re building an MVP, and this means you shouldn’t be prolonging the development stage. Firstly you need to ensure your product is exactly what market needs, with the help of a Minimum Viable Product. But you can not simply loose the precious idea-gems just because their timing is not perfect — which is why we recommend you to act the way we always do — to collect these ideas and put them into the tasks’ backlog. Postponing the features to add after the MVP will allow you to prioritize the prioritize the feature development later, and put them in the order you want to have them built.
