Building a Minimum Product (NVP)

In an ideal world, with lean methodology, you'll release your n v p to real customers and then determine what to do next based on what they're actually doing. In other words, you're always just building n v ps and iterating. Fortunately, we often end up in non ideal situations where we have to ship more than just the pure n v p. This prevents you from building features that no one ends up using or making the product so complex a customer doesn't use it at all.