Old Principles, New Speed. A practical guide to building startups using time-tested methods, accelerated by AI.
Why Ministry of Programming wrote this book—and why it matters.
1,200 words
Why most startup methodology fails—and how to fix it.
800 words
AI changes the speed. The fundamentals stay the same.
1,600 words
Understanding what customers actually hire your product to do.
2,000 words
Your entire business model on one page.
1,800 words
The decision-making tools that end arguments.
1,800 words
Turning intentions into measurable commitments.
1,800 words
Outlining your product
1,600 words
Defining requirements that engineers actually want to read.
1,800 words
Visualizing the user journey to plan releases.
1,500 words
Understanding what users actually do, not what they say.
1,400 words
Learning from the market without copying it.
1,400 words
Building consistent UI faster with reusable components.
1,300 words
Fixed-time sprints to explore and validate ideas.
1,400 words
Testing ideas before writing code.
1,300 words
Build just enough to learn, not everything you imagined.
1,500 words
Finding UX problems before your users do.
1,300 words
Understanding users through conversation, not surveys.
1,600 words
Visualizing the complete user experience.
1,300 words
Documentation that people actually read and update.
1,300 words
Automated testing and deployment that just works.
1,400 words
Measuring engineering performance that matters.
1,300 words
Reproducible infrastructure with Docker and modern tooling.
1,400 words
Building faster by writing less code.
1,400 words
The architecture that scales without the microservices headache.
1,500 words
Shipping MVPs to production in minutes, not weeks.
1,200 words
Shipping features faster without sacrificing quality.
1,300 words
Go from idea to clickable prototype in 4 hours using AI tools.
1,400 words
Establish a sustainable shipping rhythm that balances speed with quality.
1,400 words
A structured 1-2 week sprint to go from unclear problem to validated solution direction with user feedback.
3,200 words
Ship a functional MVP in 2 weeks by combining validated learnings with rapid development.
1,500 words