The Tyranny of the Minimum Viable Product

“Mapping these two kinds of quality to the way MVP is practiced shows us that this imbalance is what results in products that don’t work as advertised, are overly complicated; don’t play well with their contexts, and just outright fail. Developers put too much emphasis on features and functions (classic quality) and not enough emphasis on the whole and its context — i.e. viability (romantic quality).”