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Why Continuous Deployment?

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 15, 2009 Why Continuous Deployment? 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.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. April 6, 2010 8:23 AM Colie Brice said. Good stuff. Great blog!

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Talk about waste.

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Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

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This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

We might be a ways away from the reality of a Chief Engineer or Product Director role commonly in software development, but ultimately it's going to be a matter of getting the culture right so that people stick around long enough to develop not only the tactical skills, but also the honed instincts and senses.

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Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues Next week I head to Austin, TX for my first visit ever. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 22, 2010 Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Diversity is the canary in the coal mine for meritocracy. Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team.