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Enterprise Computing - Exploration

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Total cards: 24•Content version: v3•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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#1
Front (Question)

What is the waterfall model?

Back (Answer)

A linear, sequential software development approach with distinct phases: Exploration -> Development -> Operations

#2
Front (Question)

What is the interactive/incremental model?

Back (Answer)

Software Development Lifecycle involving iterations, each delivering small, functional increments.

#3
Front (Question)

What is the Learn phase of the Learn-Measure-Build cycle?

Back (Answer)

An enterprise comes up with a hypothesis about the marketplace and decided what empirical data would validate this hypothesis.

#4
Front (Question)

What is the Measure phase of the Learn-Measure-Build cycle?

Back (Answer)

An enterprise tests its hypothesis by collecting the empirical data.

#5
Front (Question)

What is the Build phase of the Learn-Measure-Build cycle?

Back (Answer)

An enterprise creates a Minimal Viable Product if the empirical data looks good.

#6
Front (Question)

What is a Technology Pivot?

Back (Answer)

When it becomes clear that the product could deliver its value more efficiently using different technology.

#7
Front (Question)

What is a Zoom-In Pivot?

Back (Answer)

When a product feature becomes a product.

#8
Front (Question)

What is a Zoom-Out Pivot?

Back (Answer)

When a product becomes a product feature.

#9
Front (Question)

What is a Customer Segment Pivot?

Back (Answer)

Changing the target audience while keeping the product roughly the same.

#10
Front (Question)

What is a Customer Need Pivot?

Back (Answer)

Changing the product to address a different need for your original customer group.

#11
Front (Question)

What is a Concierge MVP?

Back (Answer)

When a person replicates how the product would work, and the customer knows someone is replicating it.

#12
Front (Question)

What is a Wizard of Oz MVP

Back (Answer)

When a person replicates how the product would work, however the customer does not now a person is replicating it.

#13
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What is a Landing Page MVP?

Back (Answer)

A page where potential customers can find out about the product idea, and possibly pledge money.

#14
Front (Question)

What is a Video MVP?

Back (Answer)

A video that shows how the product might work, and asks customers to sign up for it.

#15
Front (Question)

What sort of experiment is a startup?

Back (Answer)

An experiment where you have a hypothesis you are trying to test.

#16
Front (Question)

What is the biggest waste that product development faces today?

Back (Answer)

Building things very efficiently that no one wants.

#17
Front (Question)

What is the universal constant of all successful startups?

Back (Answer)

The pivot.

#18
Front (Question)

Is agile development right for a startup?

Back (Answer)

No as with agile, the customer is knows and the specification is not, however with a startup neither the customer or specification is known.

#19
Front (Question)

What is Validated Learning?

Back (Answer)

Learning quantitatively how to build a sustainable business.

#20
Front (Question)

What needs to be in the first version of a product?

Back (Answer)

Only what is necessary to learn whether the plan is correct or not.

#21
Front (Question)

What rule of thumb should guide any kind of startup advice?

Back (Answer)

Does it minimise total time through the build-measure-learn loop?

#22
Front (Question)

What are actionable metrics?

Back (Answer)

Metrics about per customer behaviours that can be measured.

#23
Front (Question)

What is a monolithic system?

Back (Answer)

A single program run by a single process formed from a collection of modules that communicate by procedure calls.

#24
Front (Question)

Why is it easy to develop a monolith?

Back (Answer)

Because all the code is in one language in one place.