screw-the-hype : lean startup was born in 1975

Don't trust the hype, do some research. Lean software development is nothing new.

If you dig in the Software Engineering literature you can find the basis of "the lean startup movement" in Basili's paper of 1975 [2] .

Eric, look at your MVP dated back when you were -4 years old :

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[...] Iterative Enhancement technique as a practical approach to software development.
This technique begins with a simple initial implementation of a properly chosen (skeletal) subproject wich is followed by the gradual enhancement of successive implementations.

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The following quotation is taken from an academic article of Erran Carmel [1], written back in 1995 .

Written 17 years ago.

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Develop incrementally to improve product design and
reduce risks.

Evaluate and minimize risk. Evaluate alternatives at
each incremental juncture and minimize commitment of
capital, time, and labor at each stage of the process.
Once the risks are evaluated, employ risk reduction
techniques such as: prototyping, mock-ups, proof-of-concepts, simulations, usability labs, and benchmarking.
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Adva [3]

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1. Carmel, E. (1995). A Process Model for Packaged Software Development. Engineering Management, IEEE, 42(1), 50-61. Retrieved from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=366403
2. Basili, V. R., & Turner, A. J. (1975). Iterative Enhancement: A Practical Technique for Software Development. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1(4), 390–396. Retrieved from http://www-lb.cs.umd.edu/~basili/publications/journals/J04.pdf
3. http://www.inquireabout.me