Embracing the Power of the MVP
An MVP is sometimes perceived as a shortcut or a constrained version of a great idea. Not so! It’s just the first step on the road to a deeper understanding of the potential of your ideas.
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Yes, You Can Integrate AI into Your Legacy Site
Artificial intelligence is a very hot topic right now. But how can you integrate it into your existing website? Learn how we partnered with an eLearning organization to do just that.
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Building an MVP Slack App with the Forecast API
While keeping an MVP mindset, a team of Sparkbox developers built a Slack app that interfaces with the Forecast API in a few weeks. Once the basic requirements were met, beta testing allowed our team to make needed adjustments and better technical decisions.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Tech Debt
Tech debt is a byproduct of all tech projects, but it is especially common in an MVP project. Even though there are a lot of causes of tech debt, it really isn’t always a bad thing—and ultimately it is part of the process for managing constraints now and in the future.
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Case Study: A Massive Content Migration Turns into Multiple MVPs
For this client engagement, we were partnering to migrate thousands of pages from Drupal 7 to Contentful under a looming deadline. Learn how we started with one process but iterated into a new workflow that created numerous MVPs to better iterate for the future.
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Case Study: Building an MVP Application for Autonomous Mobile Robots
A minimum viable product seems like a great idea, but does it actually work in practice? Learn how Sparkbox worked with a client on honing the scope and opening communication to build a functional application for a company in the autonomous vehicle industry.
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Harnessing the Power of a Minimum Viable Product
An MVP is a design and development workhorse. From earning stakeholder buy-in and showcasing potential value to providing valuable real-world knowledge and imparting valuable process lessons, it can do a lot.
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How Dedicated Frontend Design Helps Achieve a Minimal Viable Product
An MVP is an all-hands-on-deck sort of situation, but sometimes there aren’t too many “hands” available. At Sparkbox, the role of Frontend Designer is pivotal in these situations because they can act as the Hammer or the Chisel. Sometimes both simultaneously.
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Finding Efficiency with Clean Code and a Strategic Mindset
From a technical perspective, efficiency in development—an MVP gold standard—is about a lot more than speed. In fact, sometimes you have to move at a measured (perhaps uncomfortably slow) pace to save time overall.
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Is MVP a Deliverable or a Mindset?
What would happen if we all stopped treating the MVP as nothing more than a deliverable and started treating it as a mindset? An MVP mindset could be applied to already-established processes, providing a needed boost to efficiency. One Sparkboxer explores the possibilities.
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Katie Jennings
Vice President of Business Development