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Roadmap to Product Maturity Stages and Software Development Time Estimation

Align here your product's maturity level and measure your development goals and resources 🚀

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Roadmap to Product Maturity Stages and Development Time Estimation
Roadmap to Product Maturity Stages and Development Time Estimation

In this spreadsheet template, you will find:

 

✅ What each maturity stage requires (Idea, Prototype, MVP, and beyond)

✅ Guide to align functionality, design, and others to the right stage

✅ How to estimate time and cost of development process.

When starting a software project—your own or for a client—it follows key stages:

  • Idea

  • Proof of Concept (PoC)

  • Prototype (PT)

  • Minimum Viable Feature (MVF)

  • Minimum Marketable Feature (MKF)

  • Minimum Awesome Feature (MAF)

  • Minimum Business Increment (MBI)


Each of these stages takes time. The good news? Our Roadmap guides you on how to best allocate time and resources at each stage of your software product's maturity.


You can estimate and accelerate the journey, ensuring you’re building and delivering real value, reducing costs + improving delivery speed.​



Thx for reading. With Love, MS.

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