My wife and I moved into our house 22 years ago. It needed updating in a lot of places. We couldn’t afford to do the updating all at once, nor did we want to. We wanted to move into the house sooner rather than later. Looking back on that we did a hell of a job MVPing. We took down the wallpaper and painted before moving in. A year later we got new carpet. A few years after that we redid the kitchen. After that we redid the bathrooms. 22 years later and all is well.

Corporate MVP isn’t as easy as it sounds. There are many barriers or reasons why traditional “by the book” MVP doesn’t always work in lager corporations. Some of these barriers include management demands, giant project roadmap, cross commits to other teams, budgets, established expectations and migrations.