As discussed in Chapter 2, an important factor in the success of the Lean Startup approach is to limit the size of the explore team and the resources available to them (including time). This encourages people to apply their creativity and focus on learning rather than pursuing “perfect” solutions. There are no awards for elegance of software design or automated test coverage in an MVP — the more skeletal, the better, provided we can gather the information we need. Many of the “war stories” exchanged by Lean Startup practitioners describe the ingenious shortcuts they took in the pursuit of
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