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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Continuous Deployment is Continuous Flow applied to software.

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Speaker Lineup for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

There were a number of reasons: the users (from whom net promoter scores averaged 9.5! He gave us a quick rundown on two major growth challenges he’s faced: Challenge #1: Vanity Metrics. The problem of vanity metrics seemed to exacerbate itself as we added more employees. Lean validation. And no one bought it.

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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Alistair Croll will lead a session on Lean analytics for intrapreneurs —from introducing never-before-seen case studies to tracking a product through its entire development and demonstrating which data and metrics are useful in what kinds of situations. Thus we reduce the risk of deployments. How do you address that?

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Because five whys kept turning up a few key metrics that were hard to set static thresholds for, we even had a dynamic prediction algorithm that would make forecasts based on past data, and fire alerts if the metric ever went out of its normal bounds. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

The net result: we sold exactly zero presidential debate avatars. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. We finally settled on a $1.99

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

In the past two decades, they have accounted for nearly all the net job growth in our country. In the past two decades, they have accounted for nearly all the net job growth in our country. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Startups are the lifeblood of our economy.

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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