Scoping an MVP when the client wants everything
The hardest part of an MVP is not building it. It is the conversation where you agree what is not in it.
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A feature list is not a scope. A scope is a feature list plus an explicit, written record of what you agreed to leave out — and why.
The value-versus-effort grid, honestly applied
Most teams draw the grid and then quietly build the top-right anyway. The discipline is committing to ship only the top-left first, and holding that line when the client asks for "just one small thing".