MVP decision brief
Define the business decision your MVP must improve before debating the size of its backlog.
Designed for
- Startup founders
- Product leaders
- MVP teams
The working prompts
- 01
What consequential decision should this release help us make?
- 02
Which assumption currently makes that decision uncertain?
- 03
Whose behavior or operational evidence could change our view?
- 04
What is the smallest complete path where that value can be experienced?
- 05
Which parts must be production-real for the evidence to be credible?
- 06
What can remain manual, simulated, or explicitly deferred?
- 07
Which events, corrections, failures, and outcomes need to be observed?
- 08
When will the team review the evidence, and who owns the next decision?