Why I hate the MVP car

"To be fair, I don't think its creator Henrik Kniberg would want it called "the MVP car" at all. According to his post the whole point of the illustration is to replace "MVP" with something more descriptive like "Earliest Testable/Usable/Lovable Product". I wholeheartedly agree with the notion and short-cycle iteration beats long-cycle "Bing Bang Delivery" as Kniberg refers to it."

"My first real issue is that the wheel → chassis → convertible → car is way closer to the way you actually build a car from an industrialized manufacturing perspective. Henry Ford didn't put skateboards into the factory and poop out cars. Ford's factories started with wheels and pre-fabricated chassis and transformed them into consumer vehicles through a process of craftsman-level precision and heaps of welding and stitching."

Short-cycle iteration and building the earliest testable, usable, lovable product is preferable to long-cycle 'big bang' delivery. The meme-like 'MVP car' often loses original context and oversimplifies product development. The wheel→chassis→convertible→car progression mirrors industrialized manufacturing more than iterative prototyping; car factories historically began with pre-fabricated wheels and chassis and transformed them into vehicles through craftsmanship, welding, and stitching, now automated with robots and giga-presses. Product organizations require predictable processes to push work through systems. The skateboard→scooter→bike→motorcycle→convertible narrative misrepresents centuries of incremental invention, miniaturization, and optimization that actually produced those products.

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