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Requirements and product · Level Advanced · Product MVP Product

MVP scope: down to the core

Too much for a first version.

Prompt

Ask what happens if we do not build it, then who uses it and how often. If those have no answer, it does not get scheduled.

Task: Too much for a first version.

[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
   - core user and scene
   - the hypothesis to test
   - deferrable features
   - launch date
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.

[Go through each of these]
- state the one hypothesis this version tests
- list what can go without invalidating it
- a two-week scope
- what cannot be cut without breaking the test

[Process]
1. Reconstruct what the user actually does
2. Decide whether this is a need or a proposed solution
3. Offer build, do not build, or another way
4. Write checkable acceptance criteria
5. Mark the risk and reversibility

[Output]
Problem, judgement, options, acceptance, risk.

[Do not]
- Never copy the requester's solution
- No scheduling without a usage scene
- No acceptance criteria like 'improve experience'
- Never three features at once

What to state before it starts

Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.

  • core user and scene
  • the hypothesis to test
  • deferrable features
  • launch date

Go through each of these

Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.

  • state the one hypothesis this version tests
  • list what can go without invalidating it
  • a two-week scope
  • what cannot be cut without breaking the test