Minimum Viable Product
A product built to deliver value and test a hypothesisA product with enough functionality to deliver value while helping a team test a product or customer hypothesis.
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MVP can mean Minimum Viable Product in product development, Most Valuable Player in sports, or Minimum Variance Portfolio in finance. Confirm the domain before expanding it.
An abbreviation with different meanings in product development, sports, and finance.
MVPWhat does it stand for?
Meanings by domain
Most Valuable Player
The most valuable player in a competitionAn award or title for the player judged to have made the most valuable contribution in a game, season, or competition.
Official sourceMinimum Variance Portfolio
A portfolio designed to minimize price varianceAn asset allocation constructed to minimize portfolio variance under specified constraints.
Official sourceHow to distinguish it in context
Use nearby words as clues
顧客・仮説・検証・機能・公開などの語と一緒に使われます。
Source: MVPの定義（Lean Startup Co.）試合・選手・大会・受賞・シーズンなどの語と一緒に使われます。
Source: NBA MVP受賞者一覧（NBA.com）ポートフォリオ・分散・リスク・資産配分などの語と一緒に使われます。
Source: Portfolio Risk and Return（CFA Institute）Domains and contexts
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Points that prevent overclaiming
MVP is ambiguous across product, sports, and finance contexts. The intended expansion should be confirmed from nearby words.
Common misconceptions
Avoiding meaning errors
- 開発のMVPは、機能を減らしただけの未完成品を意味するとは限りません。顧客に価値を届けながら仮説を検証する目的が重要です。Source: What Is an MVP?（Lean Startup Co.）
- 開発のMVPとPoCは同じではありません。PoCは技術や実現可能性の検証、MVPは顧客価値と学習の検証に重点があります。Source: Proof-of-Concept（AWS Startups）
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技術的に実現できるかを確かめる検証。MVPは利用者へ価値を届け、反応を学ぶための製品です。
Source: Proof-of-Concept（AWS Startups）試作や体験確認のためのモデル。MVPは実際の利用を通じた仮説検証を目的にします。
Source: Building the Minimum Viable Product（Stanford eCorner）Usage examples
In real context
“まずMVPを公開し、利用者の反応を見ながら機能を追加する。”
“今大会のMVPに選ばれた。”
“価格変動を抑えるMVPをポートフォリオに組み入れる。”
MVPFrequently asked questions
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- What does MVP stand for?
- It can stand for Minimum Viable Product (A product built to deliver value and test a hypothesis), Most Valuable Player (The most valuable player in a competition), Minimum Variance Portfolio (A portfolio designed to minimize price variance). The intended meaning depends on the surrounding context.
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