What to Build First: Defining MVP with Scenarios
summary
Goal-first approach builds an MVP by listing business goals, writing solution-agnostic scenarios for target personas, and trimming features to whatever enables those scenarios. A recruitment-portal example keeps only mandatory filtering and drops three other features, produces sketches, maps scenarios into a user story map, and hands a vertical backlog to developers. Teams validate feasibility with engineers and domain experts, and run automated, natural-language test suites to verify flows, so the first release is shippable and testable. goal-first user story map
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and space analogy
- 3:27Defining MVP concept
- 7:09Business goals and value
- 12:00Roadmapping and feature selection
- 15:05Designing with scenarios
- 27:55Collaborative scenario validation
- 31:49From scenarios to sketches
- 35:56User story mapping and backlog
- 39:16Development and testing
- 42:19Summary and key principles
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