4) Minimum Viable UX test of code

If you’re confident that you know what your building, for example the previous minimum received good feedback, a very useful staging post for the dev team is to build a working version in code. Whilst it gives the team a concrete goal it is still important to agree what “works” and what is mocked? There may be no need to “login”, or data isn’t actually saved to the DB – whatever works for the dev team. This has a useful side-effect that the non-coders of the business get a handle on what really works and what doesn’t. There is often a big list of “missing items” after reaching this goal that form the basis of a priority list that will enable the next minimum to produced.