<story><title>Iterative development: the secret to great product launches</title><url>https://www.mindk.com/blog/iterative-development/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lbacaj</author><text>I have built many things in my short career, have worked at big and small companies.&lt;p&gt;In my view iterative development is far harder, maybe even impossible, to do at companies that don’t have the culture for it. Startups have it and most grow up with it but you’ll struggle to succeed with this approach at any big company. They may introduce Agile and bring in Agile coaches but they are just putting lipstick on the pig. That culture is set, I say this having seen it first hand.&lt;p&gt;As an example, and a little self promotion that I hope I won’t get downvoted for :) I have been working on a cross platform App that reads any article to you. It uses AI&amp;#x2F;ML models to convert the text to audio so you can listen on the go and maximize learning on that dead time on commutes.&lt;p&gt;This is a fairly complex thing to build, especially in a few months and to make it work cross platform. We now have a lot of features but this all happened feature by feature. Get one thing done, get it out, start on the next thing. If I tried this approach in a big team at a big company there is absolutely no way we would have this much done in a few months. The politics, the nonsense, etc.&lt;p&gt;If you want to check out the app you can try it here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;articulu.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;articulu.com&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Iterative development: the secret to great product launches</title><url>https://www.mindk.com/blog/iterative-development/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nadam</author><text>Agile, MVP, Iterative development: these are common knowledge by now. But I think there are problem spaces where this does not really work becasue even an MVP must be huge, otherwise users will simply ignore the product. You cannot write a small MVP of a browser, an operating system, a search engine, a game engine, a 3D modeling suite, etc... I think markets in problem spaces where you can start with a very small MVP become oversaturated, because everyone wants to start a product with a 1 month MVP development. So you will have a competitive advantage if you are able to design products in problem spaces where even the MVP is relatively big, so you can attack not-so-oversaturated markets. I think the ability to design complex products becomes an important skill.</text></comment>