Agile projects don't start with a detailed plan, but let the
direction of a project emerge as we learn more. But there is value in doing some
upfront work to determine the vision of a new development. At ThoughtWorks, we
carry out inception workshops to help do this.

Paulo Caroli has developed a style of
one week inceptions, that are particularly suited for sketching out the
characteristics of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). In this evolving article, he'll outline this one week
workshop and what goes into it. He starts with Monday morning's activity "Write the
Product Vision". We'll be publishing further activities over the next few
weeks.

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