The minimum viable product (MVP) is a fundamental concept of the Lean Start-up approach as it enables a company to quickly start the learning process by integrating feedback from early adopters. Although the MVP concept has evolved over the years, its application is most often reported in a start-up context, even though established companies struggle to develop MVPs. This study reports on the experience and lessons learned at Texuna Technologies, an established company, where the software product innovation team created a process map for developing MVPs. This is the first study that allows the original MVP approach to be extended and applied to established organisations.

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Quality of Service (QoS) has been identified as an important attribute of system performance of Data Stream Management Systems (DSMS). A DSMS should have the ability to allocate physical computing resources between different submitted queries and fulfil QoS specifications in a fair and square manner. System scheduling strategies need to be adjusted dynamically to utilise available physical resources to guarantee the end-to-end quality of service levels. In this paper, we present a proactive method that utilises a multi-level component profiling approach to build prediction models that anticipate several QoS violations and performance degradations. The models are constructed using several incremental machine learning algorithms that are enhanced with ensemble learning and abnormal detection techniques. The approach performs accurate predictions in near real-time with accuracy up to 85% and with abnormal detection techniques, the accuracy reaches 100%. This is a major component within a proposed QoS-Aware Self-Adapting Data Stream Management Framework.