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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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Embrace technical debt

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I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

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Why Continuous Deployment?

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Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. Glad you don't develop software for space shuttles. January 29, 2010 11:18 AM Eric said. >

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. and force the whole company to accept a rewrite of some key system.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

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A given customer would have an entity URL that looked like this: customer://1234 Somewhere in your API, you have a way to access data about a given customer. Whichever API you use, URL-based sharding is very easy to understand. The better your internal APIs and data architecture, the easier this step will be.

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Lessons Learned: Cash is not king

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In lean times, it’s most important to focus on cutting costs in ways that speed you up, not slow you down. In fact, every single lean transformation documented in books like Lean Thinking took place in the midst of serious external threats. And, of course, theres the Lean Startup session at the upcoming Web 2.0

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Startup Tools

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AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.