As business analysts we face the question when setting up a meeting for discussion or decisions: “Who really needs to be here?  Who has the power to make the decision?”.  Good communication and effective meetings require those questions to be asked but that invitee list could wind up being hundreds of people in a large organization.  If you are looking for a specific decision to be made on a specific issue or capability, then getting the meeting down to a small core team is important in order to ensure the decision is being made quickly.  This is where Minimally Viable People comes into the picture.  Minimally Viable People is the concept that a small group performs better by making decisions with higher quality while being representative of the larger group.