Topic: MVP

MVP vs MLP vs MVA: Minimum Viable, Lovable, or Awesome?

MVP vs MLP vs MVA: Minimum Viable, Lovable, or Awesome?

MVP, MLP, or MVA? Frank Robinson's Minimum Viable Product was designed to learn, not ship. Brian de Haaff's Minimum Lovable Product added an emotional bar. Minimum Viable Awesome (or Minimum Awesome Product) argues that in 2026 'minimum' is the wrong target entirely. When building is nearly free, the only defensible goal is magnificent in at least one dimension — your crown jewel.

MVP vs MLP vs MVA: Minimum Viable, Lovable, or Awesome?
The Culture of Adequacy: Your Customers Don't Want Minimum — They Want Magnificent

The Culture of Adequacy: Your Customers Don't Want Minimum — They Want Magnificent

How Product Leaders Accidentally Train Teams to Be Mediocre

Many teams have been conditioned into adequacy: shipping the bare minimum of everything and the full potential of nothing. Here's the spectrum from Minimum Product to Maximally Awesome Product, and why your crown jewels deserve obsessive, beautiful, category-killing investment.

The Culture of Adequacy: Your Customers Don't Want Minimum — They Want Magnificent