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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

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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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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

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Imagine a general manager that has read The Innovator’s Dilemma and related books, and is therefore trying hard to help her organization make a transition to a new product category via disruptive innovation. Still, this manager is going to spend the company’s money, and needs to be held accountable. So far, so good.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

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But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo (and a call for he.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

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These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. They are closing orders.

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Marching through quicksand

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In the old days, the brand manager of a consumer packaged goods product had to spend energy inferring the effectiveness of their television ads through a combination of trailing indicators (like market share) or time-consuming market research. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. This tool adds a lot of context to bug discussions, because nonprogrammers can reference the exact Hoptoad URL containing all of the information a programmer needs to fix a bug (including backtraces).

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