There's a better term for what a MVP should be. MVP implies a minimum set of features you _have_ to develop otherwise users won't touch. The problem is agreeing what this minimum is... in startups that's easier because you have to launch, in big companies the MVP what 13 stakeholders want it to be.
I like Minimum Learning Product, or MLP - what's the minimum you need to launch to start learning? To do user surveys, analytics, get feedback on? You might not even have enough users to really run an A/B test yet, but it captures better the idea of launching small and iterating, anchoring it in listening to your users.
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There's a better term for what a MVP should be. MVP implies a minimum set of features you _have_ to develop otherwise users won't touch. The problem is agreeing what this minimum is... in startups that's easier because you have to launch, in big companies the MVP what 13 stakeholders want it to be.
I like Minimum Learning Product, or MLP - what's the minimum you need to launch to start learning? To do user surveys, analytics, get feedback on? You might not even have enough users to really run an A/B test yet, but it captures better the idea of launching small and iterating, anchoring it in listening to your users.