The MVP Trap: When 'Minimum' Becomes the Product Strategy

The MVP 'works,' pressure shifts to features, the temporary auth and the skipped tests calcify, and eighteen months later the rewrite conversation arrives — technical debt with a strategy costume.

Post-validation checkpoint: what did we learn, what gets rebuilt properly, what scales as-is — the decision the trap skips, scheduled in advance.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.